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lily-livered

[ lil-ee-liv-erd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

lily-livered

First recorded in 1595–1605; lily + liver ¹ + -ed ³

We must get over this dovish thing, this lily-livered and feline urge to withdraw from battle.

Reagan benefited by being sandwiched between two pols frequently mocked as lily-livered.

Today the Gipper would be considered lily-livered, a “ surrender monkey,” another member of the “cut-and-run crowd.”

He was carrying his lily-livered pacifism right to the White House, and I couldn't see it.

Mr. Harding did not like being called lily-livered, and was rather inclined to resent it.

There is the type of the "love-lorn maiden," of "the lily-livered" hero, of the faithful friend, of the poltroon.

It happened in the last year of Cartouche's supremacy that a lily-livered comrade fell in love with a pretty dressmaker.

Thy lily-livered husband lies at my mercy, and once in Davy Jones's locker will be out of my path.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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