Chicken
Chicken adjective - Having or showing a shameful lack of courage.
Mean-spirited and chicken are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mean-spirited" instead an adjective "Chicken".
Nearby Words: chick, chickening, chickened
Mean-spirited
Chicken and mean-spirited are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chicken" instead an adjective phrase "Mean-spirited".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- cowardly and chicken
- cowardly and mean-spirited
- weak and chicken
- weak and mean-spirited
- dastardly and chicken
- dastardly and mean-spirited
- recreant and chicken
- recreant and mean-spirited
- craven and chicken
- craven and mean-spirited
- timid and chicken
- timid and mean-spirited
- fearful and chicken
- fearful and mean-spirited
Both words in one sentence
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Chicken Little sticks out like a sore thumb, thanks to its lack of songs, rather cynical (and sometimes downright mean-spirited) tone, and its poor and pop-culture ridden writing, partially due to it attempting to capitalize on the Fractured Fairy Tale genre made popular by Shrek.
Source: Oddball in the Series
Cite this Source
Mean-spirited and Chicken. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/chicken/mean-spirited
Chicken & Mean-spirited. N.p., 2016. Web. 10 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/chicken/mean-spirited>.
Mean-spirited or Chicken. 2016. Accessed August 10, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/chicken/mean-spirited.
