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
Lily-livered and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lily-livered" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Lily-livered
Lily-livered adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: the pacifist was mistakenly accused of being a lily-livered coward
Chicken-livered and lily-livered are semantically related. You can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective phrase "Lily-livered".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- soft and chicken-livered
- soft and lily-livered
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and lily-livered
- dastardly and chicken-livered
- dastardly and lily-livered
- chicken and chicken-livered
- chicken and lily-livered
- craven and chicken-livered
- craven and lily-livered
- timid and chicken-livered
- timid and lily-livered
- fearful and chicken-livered
- fearful and lily-livered
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Lily-livered and Chicken-livered. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/chicken-livered/lily-livered
Chicken-livered & Lily-livered. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/chicken-livered/lily-livered>.
Lily-livered or Chicken-livered. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/chicken-livered/lily-livered.
