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lily-livered
adjective as in apprehensive
adjective as in spineless
adjective as in yellow
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adjective as in chickenhearted
adjective as in cowardly
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- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- chicken-hearted
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- retiring
- running scared
- scared
- shrinking
- shy
- soft
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak
- weak-kneed
- worthless
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
adjective as in craven
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adjective as in fainthearted
adjective as in fearful
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- aflutter
- aghast
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- discomposed
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jumpy
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervy
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- solicitous
- spineless
- timorous
- tremulous
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
adjective as in frightened
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adjective as in gutless
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Example Sentences
We must get over this dovish thing, this lily-livered and feline urge to withdraw from battle.
Reagan benefited by being sandwiched between two pols frequently mocked as lily-livered.
Today the Gipper would be considered lily-livered, a “ surrender monkey,” another member of the “cut-and-run crowd.”
He was carrying his lily-livered pacifism right to the White House, and I couldn't see it.
Mr. Harding did not like being called lily-livered, and was rather inclined to resent it.
There is the type of the "love-lorn maiden," of "the lily-livered" hero, of the faithful friend, of the poltroon.
It happened in the last year of Cartouche's supremacy that a lily-livered comrade fell in love with a pretty dressmaker.
Thy lily-livered husband lies at my mercy, and once in Davy Jones's locker will be out of my path.
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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lily-livered, such as: afraid, chicken, fainthearted, gutless, timid, and yellow.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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