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
Poltroon and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Poltroon" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Poltroon
Poltroon adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: a military commander who was so poltroon that he surrendered without having fired so much as a single shot
Chicken-livered and poltroon are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective "Poltroon".
Nearby Word: poltroonery
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and poltroon
- dastardly and chicken-livered
- dastardly and poltroon
- chicken and chicken-livered
- chicken and poltroon
- recreant and chicken-livered
- recreant and poltroon
- craven and chicken-livered
- craven and poltroon
- coward and chicken-livered
- coward and poltroon
- timid and chicken-livered
- timid and poltroon
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Poltroon and Chicken-livered. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/chicken-livered/poltroon
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