Definitions
lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
Word origin
From Middle English cravant, either borrowed from Old French cravanté (“defeated”), past participle of cravanter (ultimately from Latin crepare), or a modification of creaunt (“defeated”) after craven (“to crave”).
Used in a sentence
“The poor craven bridegroom said never a word.”
““But they’ve made some big carve-outs that are just absolute nonsense. There’s no perfect approach to content moderation, but they could at least try to look less transparently craven and incoherent.””
“The PP has seized on the possibility of an amnesty to rally support and to portray the PSOE leader as craven, dependent on Catalan separatists and hellbent on remaining in office.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Cowardly”6 letters
02“Recreant”6 letters
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