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white-livered
[ hwahyt-liv-erd, wahyt- ]
adjective
- lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered.
- lacking in vitality or spirit; pale; unhealthy.
white-livered
adjective
- lacking in spirit or courage
- pallid and unhealthy in appearance
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white-livered1
First recorded in 1540–50
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Example Sentences
If I live through this breach of habit, I shall be a white-livered puppy indeed.
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Nothin', only you're a white-livered stinker, an' I'm jest a-spoilin' foh a fight with you-all.
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"You take that rope off or I'll put daylight through you, you white-livered sneak," screamed the other man.
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Five of them sprung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!
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A white-livered Handloom as I dare say, or a son of a gun of a factory slave.
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