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单词 chicken-hearted
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Definition of chicken-hearted in English:

chicken-hearted

(also chicken-livered)
adjective
  • Easily frightened; cowardly.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Chicken-hearted people always feel that the other guy is either equally chicken-hearted or plain crazy.
    • Obviously, David had noticed our unexpected visitors at the river and made for home as fast as his chicken-hearted legs could carry him.
    • It is an unalloyed good, and it is sad to see our politicians responding with such chicken-hearted paranoia.
    • We look so chicken-livered to the rest of the world that they think they can easily intimidate us into doing what they want.
    • It is incumbent upon me, as leader, to stamp out this sort of morale-sapping, chicken-hearted nonsense.
    Synonyms
    timid, timorous, nervous, easily scared, easily frightened, scared, fearful, afraid, trembling, quaking, cowering, daunted
 
 

Definition of chicken-hearted in US English:

chicken-hearted

(also chicken-livered)
adjectiveˌtʃɪkənˈhɑrdədˌCHikənˈhärdəd
  • Easily frightened; cowardly.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We look so chicken-livered to the rest of the world that they think they can easily intimidate us into doing what they want.
    • It is incumbent upon me, as leader, to stamp out this sort of morale-sapping, chicken-hearted nonsense.
    • Obviously, David had noticed our unexpected visitors at the river and made for home as fast as his chicken-hearted legs could carry him.
    • Chicken-hearted people always feel that the other guy is either equally chicken-hearted or plain crazy.
    • It is an unalloyed good, and it is sad to see our politicians responding with such chicken-hearted paranoia.
    Synonyms
    timid, timorous, nervous, easily scared, easily frightened, scared, fearful, afraid, trembling, quaking, cowering, daunted
 
 
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