Synonyms for "craven": cowardly, unheroic, pliant, weak, soft touch, inglorious, lily-livered, unprotected, fulsome, unchivalrous, malleable, punching bag, helping, poltroon, impressionable, tractable, unctuous, sneak, backing, dastardly, servile, cur, manageable, docile, mellifluous, worm, exposed, canned, susceptible, wretch, compliant, sustaining, honeyed, chicken, obsequious, tremulous, ready-made, rabbit, open, amenable, sugary, mouse, vulnerable, slavish, whipping boy, milksop, workable, soothing, sentimental, doormat, base, recreant, accessible, yes-man, governing, submissive, mawkish, weakling, abject, fainthearted, off-the-shelf, ninny, yellow, holding, sappy, lickspittle, conciliatory, diffident, contemptible, toady, powerless, inviting, corny, creep, sitting duck, despicable, scapegoat, sycophant, leading, propitiatory, platitudinous, flunky, ignominious, afraid, manipulable, minion, target of opportunity, usable, banal, tool, mean, timid, deferential, dupe, gutless, shoring, trite, pawn, ingratiating, scared, low, instrument, helpless, setup, hackneyed, puppet, intimidated, ruling, sneaking, marionette, bracing, spineless, stereotyped, figurehead, fawning, fearful, sycophantic, straw man, gullible, shielding, formulaic, fall guy, pusillanimous.