poltroonery
21Tiger versus lion — Lion and Tiger Fighting by James Ward, 1797 Historically, the comparative merits of the tiger versus the lion was a popular topic of discussion by hunters, naturalists, artists, and poets, and it continues to inspire the popular imagination in… …
22baseness — Synonyms and related words: abjectness, abominability, abominableness, arrantness, atrociousness, awfulness, badness, beastliness, beggarliness, bestiality, brutality, chicanery, coarseness, commonness, commonplaceness, contemptibility,… …
23poltroon — [pɒl tru:n] noun archaic or literary an utter coward. Derivatives poltroonery noun Origin C16: from Fr. poltron, from Ital. poltrone, perh. from poltro sluggard …
24cowardice — n. Pusillanimity, poltroonery, timidity, fear, cowardliness, the white feather …
25pusillanimity — n. Cowardice, cowardliness, timidity, poltroonery, recreancy, dastardliness, meanspiritedness, pusillanimousness, effeminacy, faintheartedness, fear …
26baseness — n 1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness,… …
27cowardice — n pusillanimity, timidity, timorousness, faint heartedness, weak heartedness, Inf. chicken heartedness; poltroonery, dastardliness, recreancy, cra venness, cowardliness; faint heart, weak knees, white feather, Inf. chicken heart, Inf. funk, Sl.… …
28irresolution — n 1. infirmity, vacillation, indecision, indecisiveness, uncertainty, doubt, dubiety; hesitancy, hesitance, tergiversation, changeableness, irre soluteness, fickleness, wishy washiness; inconstancy, instability, variability, unsteadiness,… …
29pusillanimity — n timidity, timorousness, cowardice, cowardliness, lily liveredness, faint heartedness, weak heartedness, Inf. chicken heartedness, Sl. yellow belliedness; faint heart, weak knees, white feather, no backbone, a backbone of banana, Inf. chicken… …
30timidity — n 1. timorousness, pusillanimity, fear fulness, fearsomeness, lily liveredness, faintheartedness, weak heartedness, Inf. chicken heartedness, Inf. chicken liveredness, Sl. yellow belliedness; cowardice, cowardliness, dastardliness, poltroonery,… …
