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Synonyms for lily-livered

Grammar : Adj
Spell : lil-ee-liv-erd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɪl iˈlɪv ərd

Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Antonyms for lily-livered

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