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How to pronounce lily-livered in English?

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Synonyms chicken, chickenhearted, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied

Examples of lily-livered

lily-livered
Seventeen months away from the game, and you are still as lily-livered as ever.
From the usatoday.com
Disturbing signs of lily-livered liberalism among the Oxfordshire magistrates.
From the independent.co.uk
Thompson in full flight makes almost all other journalists seem pale and lily-livered.
From the telegraph.co.uk
A bunch of lily-livered word jocks who hide behind their virtual cloaks of anonymity.
From the nzherald.co.nz
But the Democrats are pretending like Romney is some lily-livered outlier.
From the latimes.com
Who wouldn't lose their temper with such lily-livered gits hiding in their glass offices?
From the canberratimes.com.au
The Economist should know better than writing such a lily-livered review.
From the economist.com
And of course got slated by the patriotic British tabloid press as lily-livered cowards.
From the economist.com
Auntie's lily-livered response was to withdraw the payments for everyone.
From the newscientist.com