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
Diffident and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Diffident" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Diffident
Diffident adjective - Not comfortable around people.
Chicken-livered and diffident are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective "Diffident".
Nearby Words: diffidence, diffidently
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and diffident
- chicken and chicken-livered
- chicken and diffident
- shy and chicken-livered
- shy and diffident
- bashful and chicken-livered
- bashful and diffident
- timid and chicken-livered
- timid and diffident
- fearful and chicken-livered
- fearful and diffident
- spineless and chicken-livered
- spineless and diffident
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