chickenhearted s easily frightened Usage(s) And even the "so-called defenders" of capitalism were too chickenhearted to resist. Stout urged this bitterness primarily as a safeguard against chickenhearted United Nations action at the peace table. There was not one chickenhearted, people-toed electronics messenger, they snorted, which could match the feats of wartime homing pigeons. Synonym(s) chicken lily-livered white-livered yellow yellow-bellied
Quotes chickenhearted Ty Burr in ChristianityToday.com The Boston Globe's Ty Burr says, "Kranks is a feel-good movie in which every character is hateful : and a Christmas movie too chickenhearted to mention Jesus."