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
Pusillanimous and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pusillanimous" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Pusillanimous
Pusillanimous adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: pusillanimous politicians who vote according to whichever way the political wind is blowing
Chicken-livered and pusillanimous are semantically related. You can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective "Pusillanimous".
Nearby Word: pusillanimity
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and pusillanimous
- dastardly and chicken-livered
- dastardly and pusillanimous
- chicken and chicken-livered
- chicken and pusillanimous
- recreant and chicken-livered
- recreant and pusillanimous
- craven and chicken-livered
- craven and pusillanimous
- timid and chicken-livered
- timid and pusillanimous
- fearful and chicken-livered
- fearful and pusillanimous
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