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How to use lily-livered in a sentence

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Some lily-livered people think that our Prime Minister deserves more respect from scribes.
The clues are in the songs though, these are not the words of some lily-livered upstart.
You can leave and you can take the rest of these lily-livered cowards with you!
To miss this window of opportunity would be a near-guarantee of a future more lily-livered than lily-white.
And they made themselves look like the bunch of lily-livered, corporate-lackey, football-killing gits that they are.
At the moment the right wing of the party has asserted its supremacy, which is why lily-livered lefties like me have deserted the Party.
It's enough to put the fear of god into a lily-livered greenhorn like myself.
It encourages people to mail or email white feathers to Jonah to remind him that he is a lily-livered poltroon.
Reagan benefited by being sandwiched between two pols frequently mocked as lily-livered.
Are a principled hero and a lily-livered coward duking it out in her conscience?
When did we become such a bunch of lily-livered scaredy cats and super-sensitive flowers?
She waggles a finger at me, today's representative of the lily-livered media.
It is deplorable how lily-livered we are being when it comes to the safety of our children.
Indeed, any sign of courtesy on our roads is taken as a sign of mental or moral weakness, a failure of the spirit, a lily-livered, chicken-hearted attempt to stay alive.
He gives a sterling performance as the lily-livered auctioneer Mick Flanagan with Shona Heffernan in top form as his embittered, feisty wife Mamie.
You might say that this is a lily-livered approach, or bad policy.
Every other western nation sees the US media as the meekest, most lily-livered, most unquestioning corporate leeches to call themselves journalists.
And it would seem the editors and producers are either too ignorant or too lily-livered not to let them have their way.
It's one thing, in the time-honoured way of lily-livered journalists the world over, to tear someone apart when they're not there to defend themselves.
Margaret thinks we're being far too lily-livered about the whole affair.
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Its well enough for lily-livered, goose-fleshed lawyers to hold their tongues when men and soldiers talk, I retorted.
He was carrying his lily-livered pacifism right to the White House, and I couldn't see it.
The lily-livered hero was hanging out his true colours at last.
We are not slaves of greed, money grubbers, soft and lily-livered.
He's one of your feather-brained, lily-livered fellows, is he?
It was the tone best understood by hinds of their lily-livered quality.
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