poltroonery

• For such a mongrel between pig and puppy, begotten by a wild boar on awolf, never before in any age of the world was suffered by the poltroonery of mankind, to run through such a career of mischief. —  The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories
• In witness of their poltroonery, we set upon the knaves with much promptitude, winning the battlement with but minor effusion of blood, etc. etc. Huzzah! —  Rambles at starchamber.com
• Dinesh D'Souza, he of the "any chance to dig at atheists" poltroonery -- and somehow manages to do so here -- is taking up the cause of poor George because he wants to embarass brother Barack. —  Planet Atheism
• We at first fancied that this apparently surreptitious proceeding was perhaps traceable to the awe entertained by the bachelor brothers for their unruly tenants; but we were relieved from the sense of acting in a style bordering on poltroonery, by finding that the principal staircase had been boarded up to preserve its marble steps and sides from injury. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
• To abandon them to the mercy of the savages, without making an effort to save them, were absolute poltroonery, and would never bear reporting in the settlements. —  The Lone Ranche

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