Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for chicken-livered
Adjective
  • Their jewelry speaks to women who aren’t afraid to express their individuality.
    Sandra Salibian, WWD, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Moving safely from the clouds to this perch required a steep angle, a dexterous pilot, and passengers more afraid of missing the film festival than of death upon impact.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The look features bright coral eyeshadow covering the eyelid, a fuchsia shade in the crease, and a swipe of fluorescent yellow eyeliner on the outside half of the eye and right under the brow.
    Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 20 July 2017
  • Three prominent Austin chefs teamed up with the Youngblood family to build a new restaurant from scratch that looks like a legacy chicken dinner house, down to the bright blue-and-yellow colors and the helpings of hot yeast rolls with honey.
    Bud Kennedy, star-telegram, 19 July 2017
Adjective
  • For the past month, California resident Adriana, who asked to be identified by only her first name for privacy reasons, has been delivering food to families too scared to leave their homes.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Ever since Donald Trump won the presidential election last November, kids around the country have been scared about what his promise of mass deportations might mean for them and their classmates.
    Vox Staff, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The roughly seven-minute conversation raises questions about how the misunderstanding occurred and why incorrect information was shared with an already frightened community.
    Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Still, federal aviation officials assured frightened flyers that American airspace is among the safest places in the world to be on a plane.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Effective brainstorming sessions require careful planning and prep.
    Nora Herting, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Under Jones’ careful direction, the Bulldogs do not beat themselves.
    Jim Root, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Mark Kelly Americans who are rightfully appalled by the pusillanimous response to anti-Semitism on college campuses have been pulling their donations and calling for restrictions on anti-Israel student groups.
    Arthur Levitt, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Those clumsy tales revealed Chazelle’s pusillanimous career ambitions.
    Armond White, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.
    Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In the world of The Boys, based on the gleefully scabrous 2000s indie comic-book series of the same name by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, superheroes are real, pop-culture-dominating, and with rare exceptions, entirely unheroic.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024
Adjective
  • May God comfort the families of the victims, heal the injured and protect humanity from those who dare to commit such cowardly acts of mass violence.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Taka, the more cowardly lion, will eventually earn a name that isn’t going to surprise anybody.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Chicken-livered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chicken-livered. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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