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poltroon

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Poltroon (noun) means an utter coward, especially one who is also mean-spirited.

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An utter coward, especially one who is also mean-spirited.

"“He was worse than a pig,” he cried. “He was a poltroon and a coward. To save himself from the righteous wrath of the husband of a woman he had wronged, he perjured his soul in an attempt to place the blame entirely upon her.”" — Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan (1913)

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