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yellow-bellied
adjective as in chickenhearted
adjective as in cowardly
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Weak matches
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- chicken-hearted
- 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
adjective as in craven
Strongest match
adjective as in gutless
adjective as in nerveless
adjective as in spineless
Example Sentences
We then used this index to gain insights about the survival and longevity of yellow-bellied marmots.
Harris is a red-blooded patriot, and Trump is a yellow-bellied traitor.
Documented examples have included California condors, Komodo dragons and yellow-bellied water snakes.
According to Daniel Blumstein, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies longevity in yellow-bellied marmots and was not involved in the new study, connecting social genes to longevity was intriguing.
And I hid from it like a yellow-bellied coward, keeping my mind on figures when it wasn’t wandering back to the musical note Anemone Cordimas put at the end of my name.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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