Chicken-livered
Chicken-livered adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: a chicken-livered newspaper editor who has been afraid to take on the town's powerful business elite
Chicken and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Chicken" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Chicken
Chicken adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: too chicken to go through with the stunt
Chicken-livered and chicken are semantically related. You can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective "Chicken".
Nearby Words: chick, chickening, chickened
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and chicken
- dastardly and chicken-livered
- dastardly and chicken
- poltroon and chicken-livered
- poltroon and chicken
- recreant and chicken-livered
- recreant and chicken
- craven and chicken-livered
- craven and chicken
- coward and chicken-livered
- coward and chicken
- timid and chicken-livered
- timid and chicken
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