What occasion do you use "poltroon"?

Question

What occasion do you use "poltroon"?
I am not sure.
please give me expample sentences with explanations.
do you sometimes use it ?
and many thanks

Answer 1

pol·troon (pŏl-trūn') pronunciation
n.

A base coward: “Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers . . . and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation” (Nina Totenberg).

[French poltron, from Old Italian poltrone, coward, idler, perhaps augmentative of poltro, unbroken colt (from Vulgar Latin *pulliter, from Latin pullus, young animal) or from poltro, bed, lazy.]
poltroonery pol·troon'er·y n.

Answer 2

Poltroon--a spiritless coward.
A man who gets drunk and beats his wife is nothing more than a poltroon trying to make himself seem macho.

Can't say as I've ever used the word in general conversation.

Answer 3

I would not use poltroon - except perhaps "Poltroon was a successful event horse ridden by American rider Torrance Watkins." It's terribly old-fashioned !

Answer 4

After the barber shaved me he accidentally applied shoe polish to my face instead of aftershave. Then he had the temerity to ask me for a gratuity. I said" You pizz poor excuse for a barber. You, sir ,--are a poltroon!"