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

ˈlily-livered [ˈlɪlilɪvəd, Am -ɚd] ADJ liter

lily-livered

hasenfüßig pej iron inf

lily-livered

feig[e]

lily-livered boy/girl

Hasenfuß m inf

lily-livered boy/girl

Angsthase m region

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

lily-livered boy/girl

Hasenfuß m inf

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Ours is not the path for the lily-livered.

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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.

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What a lily-livered bunch they are.

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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.

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

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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 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

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

Most of them are lily-livered.

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