lily-livered
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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
After all, Arsenal’s last away game was that wretched, lily-livered, tactically incompetent 4-0 defeat at Anfield.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2017
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
“The fire-eater's in love with Resa, I said, he’d devour her with his eyes if he could, but the others wouldn't believe me. All the same—to think of a lily-livered coward like you venturing here!”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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