Translations for „lily-livered“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

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lily-livered

bojaźliwy

lily-livered

tchórzliwy

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He denounces the government for its "lily-livered" approach to the trade unions, for refusing to change the rules on strike ballots.

www.gq-magazine.co.uk

What a lily-livered bunch they are.

www.independent.co.uk

What about destroying statues of the sanctimonious and the censorious, the sectarian and the dogmatic, the ideologically driven and the lily-livered?

www.independent.co.uk

I kept just sort-of smiling back, feeling as lily-livered as the shirts of my betrayed heroes.

www.telegraph.co.uk

He manfully rejects the lily-livered politesse of the snooty, educated classes who look down on him and his followers.

www.slate.com

They usually say this issue is the product of our current generation of parents being too lily-livered.

news.nationalpost.com

However, in perhaps the most lily-livered act in its inglorious history, the board reversed that decision after an appeal by the film's distributors.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The intention is to stiffen your resolve to defend -- to your peers, sales teams and more lily-livered colleagues -- what the agency promises will be "breakthrough creative work".

www.campaignlive.co.uk

Ours is not the path for the lily-livered.

www.vanguardngr.com

But they are not effective in opposition or in citizen activism because they are lily-livered, cowardly.

www.vanguardngr.com