Perhaps the most craven attitude of all is the one expressed by the Injunction "don't be certain."

Editorial boards across the country are calling the decision everything from "shortsighted" to "a missed economic opportunity" to "the most craven sort of election-year politics."

What's really going on here, of course, is the most craven sort of election-year politics.

This fall, in its most craven attempt to appeal to a younger market, the company that defined spacious luxury at its most American started selling the Catera.

In the thirteenth century, medieval men, fighting for the great prizes, often oscillated unpredictably between gross, barbarous impiety and violence, and the most craven superstition.

Darkhorse knew he also wanted it because, of all his brethren, this drake lord was, the most craven.

The liberals are the most craven cowards.

Auguste Blanc's hands were shaking in the most craven manner so that he had difficulty reading the paper he grasped.

He's the most human of Shakespeare's characters that I've encountered, because he's rash, he's witty, he vacillates between magnificent courage and the most craven cowardice.

For proof, just take a look at the most craven figure in American politics: the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist.