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Lacking courage or firmness, in contemptuous description.
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- lily-livered coward
- lily-livered response
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The captain called them lily-livered.
She rejected his lily-livered excuse.
The insult lily-livered made the argument worse.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: More lily-livered; most lily-livered. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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