chicken-livered

adjective

chick·en-liv·ered ˈchi-kən-ˌli-vərd

Synonyms of chicken-livered next

: fainthearted, cowardly

Examples of chicken-livered in a Sentence

a chicken-livered newspaper editor who has been afraid to take on the town's powerful business elite

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1804, in the meaning defined above

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chicken-livered

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