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Easily frightened or lacking courage, used disparagingly.
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- chickenhearted excuse
- chickenhearted refusal
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He called the refusal chickenhearted.
She resented the chickenhearted label.
The narrator dismissed his caution as chickenhearted.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: More chickenhearted; most chickenhearted. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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