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chicken-hearted
adjective as in cowardly
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- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- retiring
- running scared
- scared
- shrinking
- shy
- soft
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak
- weak-kneed
- worthless
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
adjective as in frightened
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adjective as in gutless
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Example Sentences
Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.
There was a rush of patriots to Paris, and another rush of the chicken-hearted to the coast and the frontier.
I forgive Bellecour, who is only a chicken-hearted fellow anyway!
But others don't know you as well as I do, and there's plenty of them would think you were chicken-hearted.
What a chicken-hearted fellow her father must have thought me!
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On this page you'll find 118 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chicken-hearted, such as: dastardly, afraid, anxious, apprehensive, backward, and base.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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