chickenhearted

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Adj.

chickenhearted - easily frightened

chicken, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

cowardly, fearful - lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley

chickenhearted

adjective

Ignobly lacking in courage:

cowardly, craven, dastardly, faint-hearted, lily-livered, pusillanimous, unmanly.

Slang: chicken, gutless, yellow, yellow-bellied.

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And all the other chickenhearted self-appointed elitists are, in theory, in danger of losing their international stars.

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If they're worth the respect of their horses, both the good guys and the bad guys show contempt for an abstraction as bloodless and chickenhearted as due process of the law.