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Word: poltroon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Ghost Story | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...Where George Washington ordered General Charles Lee to advance, found him retreating, called him a "damned poltroon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOPERATIVES: Back to Capitalism | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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