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Dastard vs Craven - What's the difference?

dastard | craven |

As a noun dastard

is a malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.

As an adjective dastard

is meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly.

As a verb dastard

is to dastardize.

As a proper noun craven is

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dastard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You are all recreants and dastards , and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IV, ''Happy
    • Observe, too, that this is all a modern affair; belongs not to the old heroic times, but to these dastard new times. ‘Happiness our being’s end and aim’ is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world.

    References

    *
    The Free Dictionary: Dastard

    Derived terms

    * dastardly * dastardness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dastardize.
    • (Dryden)

    craven

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The poor craven bridegroom said never a word.

    Derived terms

    * cry craven

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A coward.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He is a craven and a villain else.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make .
  • * 1609 : , Act III, Scene IV
    • There is a prohibition so divine / That cravens my weak hand.

    References

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    Anagrams

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