chicken-hearted
adjective
timid; fearful; cowardly.
chicken-heartedness
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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
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 Henry Handel Richardson
"Jimmy Wigley's gone home with more scrip than he ever got at once before; and if your chicken-heartedness hadn't taken the wrong direction, Miss Craydocke, I should be perfectly at ease in my mind."
From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
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 Montrose Jonas Moses
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 John Oxenham
