That would be a short-sighted and a rather craven estimate of present needs and future prospects.
The crisis came and brought the answer to any craven fear.
I agree with him that there is "craven, ill-informed opportunism" in the document.
A picture has been drawn of craven politicians hampering their admirals and generals in their bold designs.
We ask for no more; we should be cravens to take less.
Of course, many actions are settled and very often the newspapers have been extremely craven in not fighting the cases.
Not to have done so would have been an act of the most craven appeasement.
If a man wants to keep his fellow-countrymen out of war, you call him craven?
