The villain in the novel was a liar and a poltroon. From LearnThat.org.
Being dismissed as a liar and poltroon translates to “respect”?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist] Reference
"Then you have been playing the poltroon," he says savagely. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
I am not yet such a poltroon that I am afraid to conduct you. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
Erskine was no poltroon: he was the boldest speaker at the bar. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
The last scene of this splendid drama brings forward the poltroon. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
This was, you see, another stage in my development as a poltroon. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Flash]
A systematic liar and a beggarly cheat; a swindler and a poltroon. From Wordnik.com. [Lieberman: I Respect Obama] Reference
"Why do you not draw your own sword, poltroon!" cheeped the Mouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
If he'd known me for the poltroon I was he might have been less alert. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Flash]
"I am come for that poltroon, Riccio," he said with slow, rasping words. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
To which Washington retorted, "You damned poltroon, you never tried them!". From Wordnik.com. [Notable & Quotable] Reference
And I sinner and soft-spined poltroon let her believe her own explanation. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
The ludicrous names of this military poltroon were Spavento (Horrid fright). From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
But this very duke of Buckingham was little better than a poltroon at bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
The poltroon, like the scabbard, is an incumbrance when once the sword is drawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
But she was right; there was something of the poltroon in him, and he was trembling. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
Alexander never minded looking a fool, or even a poltroon, in the first part of a battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Him, however, they treated as an old poltroon, and forbore not to style him a rascally traitor. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Caliph Vathek] Reference
A quiet answer made him imagine he had to deal with a poltroon and he challenged him to a fight. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Naturally, I never knew what he was talking about, not understanding that strange word "poltroon.". From Wordnik.com. [Karen Kwiatkowski: Cowards in Congress] Reference
My Mama seemed shorter to me, and frailer, and James H Johnstone was a puffed-up nothing of a poltroon. From Wordnik.com. [A Place so Foreign] Reference
You can get rid of the pandering poltroon in the Oval Office, but this behemoth is gonna sail right on. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Hendra: The Rapture Is Crapture (Part 1)] Reference
But why didst thou not comfort the poor man about the rencounter between him and that poltroon Metcalfe?. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
"The people of Vermont," they indignantly remarked, "would not willingly send a poltroon to represent them.". From Wordnik.com. [Fracas in Congress: The Battle of Honor between Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold] Reference
But I can't consent to pass for a fool; and still more not for a poltroon – You'll excuse the little hint. '. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Yet, when brought face to face with death, in a different form, he seemed the veriest poltroon that ever walked. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
He had fallen low enough surely when it was a comfort to be told that he was a liar, a poltroon and a scoundrel. From Wordnik.com. [Lodusky] Reference
Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, "Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
"And, besides, you speak only of my two blunders; you know my other parts, -- you know that by nature I am no poltroon.". From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
He whinnied at me - I've seldom seen a man in such fright, and being a true-bred poltroon myself, I speak with authority. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman]
"A fight unfolded ...," said the feckless on-air poltroon, after the guy said "something inappropriate about Allen's wife."!. From Wordnik.com. [VA-SEN: Attack Of The Allen Staffers -- The Video] Reference
A poltroon would have fallen backwards, being overcome with the fumes; as for me, I got up and moreover I wiped myself clean. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
But from the time of his meeting Captain Hawker in the ISIS, I never heard of his acting otherwise than as a poltroon and a liar. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson]
Then, let him also be too proud to die: in this ignominious fashion ... this poltroon attempt to sneak out of life by a back door. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
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