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
Spineless and chicken-livered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spineless" instead an adjective phrase "Chicken-livered".
Spineless
Spineless adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Usage example: spineless seamen who trembled at the first roar of the cannon
Chicken-livered and spineless are semantically related. You can use "Chicken-livered" instead an adjective "Spineless".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- soft and chicken-livered
- soft and spineless
- cowardly and chicken-livered
- cowardly and spineless
- feeble and chicken-livered
- feeble and spineless
- weak and chicken-livered
- weak and spineless
- dastardly and chicken-livered
- dastardly and spineless
- chicken and chicken-livered
- chicken and spineless
- recreant and chicken-livered
- recreant and spineless
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