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chickenhearted

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a.1.Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened.
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Adj.1.chickenhearted - easily frightenedchickenhearted - easily frightened                    
chicken, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
cowardly, fearful - lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
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CBS Radio broadcast a special on "the apathetic American"; the singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright declared that his countrymen were becoming "a callous, chickenhearted and immoral people".
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