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cravenadjective having or showing a shameful lack of couragea craven refusal to deliver the unwelcome news personally chicken, chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered(archaic), poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow diffident, fainthearted, fearful, timid, timorousafraid, frightened, scaredcareful, cautious, warybashful, coy, shyfeeble, soft, unmanly, weak brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, hardy, heroic(also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous audacious, bold, brazen, cheeky, nervyplucky, spirited, spunkydetermined, resolute a person who shows a shameful lack of courage in the face of dangera craven who ran away and left everyone else behind to deal with the crisis chicken, coward, cur, dastard, funk, poltroon, recreant, sissy defeatist, quittercream puff, milquetoast, pushover, pussy(slang), weakling, wimpcaitiff, snake, sneakostrich, scaramouch(or scaramouche) hero, stalwart, valiant daredevil adj.cowardly, pusillanimous, craven, dastardly mean having or showing a lack of courage.cowardly implies a weak or ignoble lack of courage.a cowardly failure to stand up for principle pusillanimous suggests a contemptible lack of courage.the pusillanimous fear of a future full of possibility craven suggests extreme defeatism and complete lack of resistance.secretly despised her own craven yes-men dastardly often implies behavior that is both cowardly and treacherous or skulking or outrageous.a dastardly attack on unarmed civilians in the 13th century |