lily-livered
Example Sentences
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Of course, Paxton isn't just a standout when it comes to being lily-livered.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2022
If that happens, they can point to their lily-livered observations and say, “See, we knew it all along.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2021
The genre, notorious in the past for its domineering heroes and lily-livered heroines, “really did evolve” over time.
From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2020
The Elizabethans referred to their monarch not as the head of state but as its liver, and woe to any people saddled with a lily-livered leader, whose bloodless cowardice would surely prove their undoing.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2017
“Be quiet, you lily-livered Mellower!” said Mrs. Horsepool- Worthingham, using her special voice.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
