Dastard: alternatives and connections

The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of Germ…

Meanly; servilely.

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome wi…

Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward.

To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.

To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.

An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.

In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.

A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.

A mean, paltry fellow; a coward.

Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n.

One who cringes meanly; a fawner.

To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.

A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion.

the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury; "you are in no danger"; "there was widespread danger of disease"