lily-livered in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for lily-livered in the English»Spanish Dictionary

lily-livered [Am ˈlɪli ˌlɪvərd, Brit ˈlɪlɪlɪvəd] ADJ

lily-livered

pusilánime

lily-livered in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for lily-livered in the English»Spanish Dictionary

lily-livered [ˈlɪlɪˌlɪvəd, Am -ɚd] ADJ liter

lily-livered

cobarde

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

This lily-livered defeatism needs to be challenged.

theconversation.com

What a lily-livered bunch they are.

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 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

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

www.slate.com

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

www.vanguardngr.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

Ours is not the path for the lily-livered.

www.vanguardngr.com

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.

www.vanguardngr.com