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• s  easily frightened

• Shouting that he was a lily-livered traitor they demanded his resignation, claimed that he wanted to reduce the Polish Army by 60,000 men.
• Sir: I'll vote for Eisenhower, but I'm getting thoroughly disgusted with the way lily-livered Republicans hide their heads in shame and horror every time the Democrats make an .
• Sir: For 30 years the lily-livered liberals have had their way in the Republican Party.

• chicken
• chickenhearted
• white-livered
• yellow
• yellow-bellied

News & Articles

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• Words of encouragment: Run without entering an anaerobic state with "Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run"
  What I didn't know on those early runs — the ones where even my face seemed to hurt when I got home — was that I wasn't lily-livered or weak-willed. Nor was I biomechanically unable to run. I was, in fact, "going lactic."
  July 16, 2013 - Denver Post

Quotes

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• George S Patton in American Spectator
  You just wait and see,Patton said at the conclusion of World War II. "The lily-livered bastards in Washington will demobilize. They'll say they've made the world safe for democracy again. The Russians are not such damned fools. They'll...