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Word: poltroonish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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Usage:

...face of physical frailty and parental distrust, in mean towns built beside buffalo wallows. Beneath the burden runs a hysterically bitter ground-bass-a dirge for everything Puritan-and snarling discords to the effect that constipation was the pioneers' curse; that their children were rickety, their politics poltroonish, their women spavined, their teeth acid, their minds (including the author's) stunted and deranged, all because they failed to raise cabbages and take lime into their systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pretty Crazy | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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