lily-livered
weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
Origin of lily-livered
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How to use lily-livered in a sentence
We must get over this dovish thing, this lily-livered and feline urge to withdraw from battle.
Reagan benefited by being sandwiched between two pols frequently mocked as lily-livered.
Today the Gipper would be considered lily-livered, a “ surrender monkey,” another member of the “cut-and-run crowd.”
He was carrying his lily-livered pacifism right to the White House, and I couldn't see it.
Bear Trap | Alan Edward NourseMr. Harding did not like being called lily-livered, and was rather inclined to resent it.
Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope
There is the type of the "love-lorn maiden," of "the lily-livered" hero, of the faithful friend, of the poltroon.
The Critics Versus Shakspere | Francis A. SmithIt happened in the last year of Cartouche's supremacy that a lily-livered comrade fell in love with a pretty dressmaker.
A Book of Scoundrels | Charles WhibleyThy lily-livered husband lies at my mercy, and once in Davy Jones's locker will be out of my path.
The Squire's Daughter | Archibald Marshall
British Dictionary definitions for lily-livered
cowardly; timid
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