chicken-heartedness
- a word derived from chicken-hearted.
Example Sentences
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Its friends point out that R. F. C. as an emergency organization must put aside chicken-heartedness, take financial risks, forget about profits and boldly advance its credit on security which, at the moment, looks inferior.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, you know, my master Rolfe desired it; and then you were always railing out on me for chicken-heartedness.
From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Moses, Montrose Jonas
Tom Hamon heard it as he sat brooding over his wrongs and cursing the chicken-heartedness and fear of consequences which had robbed him of his revenge.
From A Maid of the Silver Sea by Oxenham, John
Let no one charge these boys with chicken-heartedness.
From The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Reed, Talbot Baines
The wrangle caused by Pin's chicken-heartedness lasted the sisters down the garden-path, across the road, and over into the precincts of a large, public park.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel
