chicken-hearted
Example Sentences
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Joe Ruby, who helped invigorate Saturday morning children’s television as the co-creator of Scooby-Doo, the long-running animated franchise about a group of teenage private eyes and their chicken-hearted, snack-guzzling Great Dane, died Aug. 26 at his home in Westlake Village, Calif. He was 87.
From Washington Post
Chicken-hearted, too, all easy shots.
From The New Yorker
If they hadn’t, Comey said, they were members of the above-mentioned club: too chicken-hearted to take on the really tough stuff.
From New York Times
For this pang of conscience, union officials labelled him “chicken-hearted.”
From The New Yorker
“You are so chicken-hearted,” he teased Hamidullah*, a young registrar who was also desperately in need of rest.
From The Guardian
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