Craven, cowardly; apostate; recreant.

Designating a person who admits to having been defeated or overcome; that yields or surrenders; in a… In predicative use, usually following a…

That owns himself beaten or afraid of his opponent; cowardly, weak-hearted, abjectly pusillanimous.

†Mentally or morally inferior; lacking in courage or spirit (obsolete). Later more generally: low, mean, contemptible. Now rare or merged in other…

figurative. Like a cur in nature; snappish, snarling, quarrelsome; mean-spirited, base, ignoble.

Cowardly, dastardly.

Of a person: lacking spirit, sensitivity, or other qualities regarded as elevated or human; (now esp.) lacking in human warmth, feeling, or…

Like or characteristic of a dastard; showing mean or despicable cowardice.

Cowardly. Obsolete. rare.

Characterized by mean shrinking from danger; showing base cowardice; dastardly.

Mean-spirited; unpleasant, nasty. Now rare.

Sickly, feeble, thin; pining, wasting; = peaky, adj.2 Now chiefly English regional and U.S. regional.

attributive. Designating a weak or cowardly spirit or disposition. Obsolete. rare.

Like or after the nature of a cur.

Displaying emotion or the semblance of it; mean-spirited, weak. Of persons.

Of the nature of a craven, cowardly.

Forming parasynthetic adjectives and derived adverbs and nouns, esp. in sense A. 10a, as base-hearted (also base-heartedly), base-mettled, base-spi…

= nithing, adj.

Fearful, timid, cowardly.

Cowardly, base, despicable.

That turns tail.

Base, filthy, worthless.

timid, cowardly; also absol.

Used as adjective: Afraid, cowardly, esp. in to turn Charlie. slang.