Usually means: Cowardly, lacking courage or resolve.
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  1. lily-livered: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lily-livered: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lily-livered: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lily-livered, lily-livered: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lily-livered: Vocabulary.com
  6. lily-livered: Wordnik
  7. lily-livered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lily-livered: Wiktionary
  9. lily-livered: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lily-livered: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lily-livered: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lily-livered, lily-livered: Dictionary.com
  13. Lily-livered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. lily-livered: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. lily-livered: Rhymezone
  16. Lily-livered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. lily-livered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. lily-livered: Free Dictionary
  19. lily-livered: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. lily-livered: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. lily-livered: Encyclopedia

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  1. lily-livered: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Cowardly, lacking courage.

Similar:
white-livered, coward, cowardly, chickenhearted, fearful, yellow-bellied, yellow, chicken, liver-faced, chicken-livered, more...

Opposite:
courageous, brave, fearless, bold

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Similar:
white-livered, coward, cowardly, chickenhearted, fearful, yellow-bellied, yellow, chicken, liver-faced, chicken-livered, more...

Opposite:
courageous, brave, fearless, bold



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