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
Fearful and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fearful" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Fearful
Fearful adjective - Easily frightened.
Usage example: the stray cat that we took in is still fearful, even around us
Chicken-livered and fearful are semantically related. You can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective "Fearful".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and fearful
- dastardly and chicken-livered
- dastardly and fearful
- chicken and chicken-livered
- chicken and fearful
- craven and chicken-livered
- craven and fearful
- shy and chicken-livered
- shy and fearful
- timid and chicken-livered
- timid and fearful
- spineless and chicken-livered
- spineless and fearful
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