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
Gutless and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Gutless" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Gutless
Gutless adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: a gutless attack on a writer who is now deceased and unable to defend herself
Chicken-livered and gutless are semantically related. You can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective "Gutless".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- soft and chicken-livered
- soft and gutless
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and gutless
- feeble and chicken-livered
- feeble and gutless
- weak and chicken-livered
- weak and gutless
- dastardly and chicken-livered
- dastardly and gutless
- chicken and chicken-livered
- chicken and gutless
- recreant and chicken-livered
- recreant and gutless
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