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lily-livered

adjective

Cowardly, lacking bravery.

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What a lily-livered bunch they are.

There is nothing lily-livered about the Spanish socialists.

But its lily-livered approach might, in fact, be the right one.

And it's not lily-livered liberals who do the whining — they're actually relatively stoic.

When did we become such a bunch of lily-livered scaredy cats and super-sensitive flowers?

Are a principled hero and a lily-livered coward duking it out in her conscience?

She waggles a finger at me, today's representative of the lily-livered media.

But when our allies engage in democracy, some Republicans mock them as lily-livered.

Ian still likes chillwave, that lily-livered, no-good mangy mongrel.

The movie unabashedly glorifies these crime family children and portrays their Gallic counterparts as lily-livered wusses.

These days I'm sickeningly lily-livered, by choice rather than necessity.

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