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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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