1. plural of cullion; a contemptible or cowardly person (archaic insult)
Usage: archaic; offensive; chiefly historical or literary

Examples

• The playwright's villains were portrayed as base cullions unworthy of respect.
• In Renaissance literature, cullions were stock characters representing moral weakness.
• He dismissed his rivals as cullions and fools.
• The term cullions appears frequently in Elizabethan drama as an insult.
• Modern readers often encounter cullions in historical texts without understanding its force as an insult.