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Antonyms for lily-livered
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : lil-ee-liv-erd |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɪl iˈlɪv ərd |
Definition of lily-livered
Origin :- "cowardly," 1605, in "Macbeth;" from lily (in its color sense of "pale, bloodless") + liver (n.1), which was a supposed seat of love and passion. A healthy liver is typically dark reddish-brown.
- adj cowardly
- It was the tone best understood by hinds of their lily-livered quality.
- Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini
- The lily-livered hero was hanging out his true colours at last.
- Extract from : « Roger Ingleton, Minor » by Talbot Baines Reed
- We are not slaves of greed, money grubbers, soft and lily-livered.
- Extract from : « Special Days and their Observance » by Anonymous
- He's one of your feather-brained, lily-livered fellows, is he?
- Extract from : « Madame Flirt » by Charles E. Pearce
- Its well enough for lily-livered, goose-fleshed lawyers to hold their tongues when men and soldiers talk, I retorted.
- Extract from : « By order of the company » by Mary Johnston
- He was carrying his lily-livered pacifism right to the White House, and I couldn't see it.
- Extract from : « Bear Trap » by Alan Edward Nourse
- There is the type of the "love-lorn maiden," of "the lily-livered" hero, of the faithful friend, of the poltroon.
- Extract from : « The Critics Versus Shakspere » by Francis A. Smith
- "It's well enough for lily-livered, goose-fleshed lawyers to hold their tongues when men and soldiers talk," I retorted.
- Extract from : « To Have and To Hold » by Mary Johnston
- It happened in the last year of Cartouche's supremacy that a lily-livered comrade fell in love with a pretty dressmaker.
- Extract from : « A Book of Scoundrels » by Charles Whibley
- Oh, you lily-livered gelatinous-vertibraed apologies for men!
- Extract from : « The Great Gold Rush » by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis
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