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
Recreant and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Recreant" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Recreant
Recreant adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: the victors had only contempt for the recreant enemy soldiers who surrendered without firing a shot
Chicken-livered and recreant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective "Recreant".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and recreant
- dastardly and chicken-livered
- dastardly and recreant
- poltroon and chicken-livered
- poltroon and recreant
- chicken and chicken-livered
- chicken and recreant
- craven and chicken-livered
- craven and recreant
- coward and chicken-livered
- coward and recreant
- timid and chicken-livered
- timid and recreant
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