How to Use craven in a Sentence

craven

adjective
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  • The ugliest parts of me revel in the craven parts of him.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The craven kicker, clad in all black, took off on foot.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Rarely has the PUC been more craven than in Brown’s latest six years.
    — Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Part of the answer has to do with Trump’s craven enablers and hangers-on.
    — Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2021
  • There doesn’t seem to be an easy escape, and that’s true whether the league’s leaders are noble and good, or greedy and craven.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • It’s the power to change some of the awful, craven aspects of our current culture.
    — Cameron Smith | Csmith@al.com, al, 13 Apr. 2022
  • There isn’t an inch on this planet that some craven rich person won’t figure out how to strip mine.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • And some viewers will surely be turned off by the network’s craven disregard for the truth.
    — David Zurawik, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • On the one hand, Trump is an existential threat to the body politic, a craven and corrupt swamp creature worse than Nixon.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 June 2019
  • The show was better off when both women's worldviews were less craven and more nuanced.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 1 July 2024
  • Welcome back, to fans and sad sack wasp traps alike, to the craven death pit of greed and egomania that is Succession.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 8 Aug. 2019
  • And in a town where craven grasps for power are part of the daily routine, Eva and her musical are right at home.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But in this instance, NBC News’ decision to spike a story may not be craven.
    — Andrew Tyndall, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Not all teams and owners are as craven as Jacobs and Fertitta.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2020
  • But their grins were as wide as their hopes were secure, whereas Isabelle is prey to sudden squalls of tears and craven entreaties.
    — Michelle McNamara, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Activists portrayed the law as a craven attempt to exonerate Netanyahu and an assault on the rule of law.
    — Noa Cnaan-On, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The Republicans are hell-bent on the destruction of American democracy, or else too craven to stand in the way—the result is the same.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 18 May 2022
  • Little wonder, then, that the modern fan is just a wee bit jaded, immune to even the most craven means to a competitive end.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Bosses in foodland are every bit as craven and cutthroat as anywhere else.
    — Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 23 July 2021
  • The distortions of social media seemed more craven than ever.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2020
  • In the end, the movie reveals very little about an artist’s nature — and a lot about craven commercial calculation.
    — Edouard Deluc, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • Cheney and Kinzinger clearly find this craven, concluding that the problem, far from fading away, is getting worse and has to be taken head-on.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Feb. 2022
  • This been a craven and desperate money grab to try to recoup some of the revenue that has been lost, in a season with no ticket sales or concessions.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • His bride should be presumed innocent (until proven to be equally craven).
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2020
  • To celebrate Easter is to allow Jesus to triumph over the craven fear that so often assails us and tries to bury every kind of hope.
    — ExpressNews.com, 11 Apr. 2020
  • First of all, whether or not this is a fluke or a craven, calculated Hollywood move is completely beside the point.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • It is said that the Senate will save House Republicans from the consequences of their craven heartlessness.
    — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Denver Post, 5 May 2017
  • The details — the dog that licks the drifter's hand, the description of the beauty that drives him mad, his increasingly craven offers to keep her — echo the wordplay that made Berry rock 'n' roll's first poet.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2017
  • What the Dominion filing shows is something more basic: Fox News is a fraud and the people who work for it are, to varying degrees, craven cowards.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Here comes the craven author, belonging to a profession that’s one part thrill and many parts heartbreak, marching into the bookstore: Where is my name?
    — Lauren Markham, Longreads, 7 June 2018

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