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lily-livered

adjective as in cowardly

adjective as in yellow

adjective as in lily-livered

adjective as in chickenhearted

adjective as in craven

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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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