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
Chickenhearted and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Chickenhearted" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Chickenhearted
Chickenhearted adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: too chickenhearted to speak up, even though she knew a terrible injustice was being committed
Chicken-livered and chickenhearted are semantically related. You can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective "Chickenhearted".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and chickenhearted
- dastardly and chicken-livered
- dastardly and chickenhearted
- chicken and chicken-livered
- chicken and chickenhearted
- recreant and chicken-livered
- recreant and chickenhearted
- craven and chicken-livered
- craven and chickenhearted
- coward and chicken-livered
- coward and chickenhearted
- timid and chicken-livered
- timid and chickenhearted
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Chickenhearted and Chicken-livered. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/chicken-livered/chickenhearted
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