Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Cowardly.
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- adjective
cowardly
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Examples
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People who are called chicken-livered or lily-livered are thought to be fainthearted and cowardly.
DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001
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Since 9/11, I have become increasingly chicken-livered about topics that make me feel pain and sadness.
Arahan Clavaeau vexes me, significantly Bettina Tizzy 2008
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I also thought that outcry would have happened when Gannon invaded the WH press corps — journalists today are too chicken-livered to even stand up for themselves, much less pursue the truth and challenge the administration.
Think Progress » Washington Times Provides Press Credentials to Right-Wing Lobbyist 2005
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The rascally manner in which the chicken-livered successor of
Burlesques 2006
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Or are you too chicken-livered to spout your nonsense to people like him?
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I always suspected that underneath his meanness he was nothing but a chicken-livered coward.
Texas! Lucky Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1990
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I always suspected that underneath his meanness he was nothing but a chicken-livered coward.
Texas! Lucky Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1990
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Show you something else I've learned, if you're not chicken-livered.
The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956
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Show you something else I've learned, if you're not chicken-livered.
The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956
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This is one of the things I learned Show you something else I've learned, if you're not chicken-livered.
Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955
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