How To Use Lily-livered In A Sentence
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It encourages people to mail or email white feathers to Jonah to remind him that he is a lily-livered poltroon.
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And it would seem the editors and producers are either too ignorant or too lily-livered not to let them have their way.
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Margaret thinks we're being far too lily-livered about the whole affair.
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It's enough to put the fear of god into a lily-livered greenhorn like myself.
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Calling someone an ‘appeaser ‘is a dreadful insult, one implying, faint-heartedness, limp-wristedness, lily-liveredness, and all the rest.’
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And almost worse is that our lily-livered leaders are doing nothing about it.
The Sun
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Every other western nation sees the US media as the meekest, most lily-livered, most unquestioning corporate leeches to call themselves journalists.
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It's enough to put the fear of god into a lily-livered greenhorn like myself.
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Free speech is under threat in today's lily-livered world.
The Sun
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You might say that this is a lily-livered approach, or bad policy.
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The clues are in the songs though, these are not the words of some lily-livered upstart.
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These days, bone in any form seems to be off restaurant menus for fear of upsetting lily-livered diners who might need smelling salts after being reminded that what they are eating once had something to do with an animal.
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At the moment the right wing of the party has asserted its supremacy, which is why lily-livered lefties like me have deserted the Party.
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Apparently, we are not only procrastinators and malingerers but a bunch of lily-livered cowards because going to the dentist tops the list, followed by exercising and saving money.
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And they made themselves look like the bunch of lily-livered, corporate-lackey, football-killing gits that they are.
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The company commissioned research into consumer attitudes to new technology which showed that we are all a bunch of lily-livered, scaredy-cats when it comes to trying new gizmos.
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Sometimes subtle and discreet doesn't mean dull and lily-livered.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's one thing, in the time-honoured way of lily-livered journalists the world over, to tear someone apart when they're not there to defend themselves.
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Indeed, any sign of courtesy on our roads is taken as a sign of mental or moral weakness, a failure of the spirit, a lily-livered, chicken-hearted attempt to stay alive.
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The whole British sitting volleyball squad are a bunch of yellow-bellied moaners, and Martine Wright, wife, mother, budding Paralympic athlete, the worst injured female survivor of Britain's most terrible terrorist act ever, what a lily-livered, chicken-hearted coward she is.
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The Tory solution is absurd, Labour's is lily-livered.
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This means an arrogant faith in victory or success; the image is a bunch of guys tossing their caps up in the air and shouting, ‘Whipping them lily-livered toads will be a piece of cake!’
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He gives a sterling performance as the lily-livered auctioneer Mick Flanagan with Shona Heffernan in top form as his embittered, feisty wife Mamie.
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South Dakotans refused to embrace this lily-livered tactic.
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To miss this window of opportunity would be a near-guarantee of a future more lily-livered than lily-white.
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You can leave and you can take the rest of these lily-livered cowards with you!
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Although this doesn't really translate into English, we nevertheless have a negative association between the liver and bravery, lexicalised in the antonym of bravery: ‘lily-livered’.
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He was also known to refer to the generalissimo as “a lily-livered Chink” and a “slant-eyed snake.”
The Last Empress
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Some lily-livered people think that our Prime Minister deserves more respect from scribes.
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If you're willing to be prime minister without getting the public to vote for you, it's just lily-livered sissiness to let the fact your colleagues won't vote for you either stand in your way.
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