Poltroon in a sentence as a noun

It's a perfectly good hypothesis that calling a petty tyrant a knave, poltroon or ******* could deflate them.

We still have Galileo's copy, which in the margins has the following notes: “piece of asininity”, “elephantine”, “buffoon”, “evil poltroon”, “ungrateful villain”.

Poltroon in a sentence as an adjective

The obvious route is for a court to say "sure, a company counts as a person for this statute but you didn't have a company, you had the incorporation papers, which is different".What a poltroon.

"That isn't to say that Anonymous consists uniformly of maladjusted poltroons--it doesn't, by a long shot, nor are they generally fanatics in any but the most temporary sense--but it's not controversial to say that it harbors a large population of disaffected youth and misfits of every stripe.

Poltroon definitions

noun

an abject coward

See also: craven recreant

adjective

characterized by complete cowardliness