chicken-heartedly

See also: chickenheartedly

English

Etymology

chicken-hearted +‎ -ly

Adverb

chicken-heartedly (comparative more chicken-heartedly, superlative most chicken-heartedly)

  1. (derogatory) In a chicken-hearted manner; fearfully
    • 2008, Richard F. Miller, In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History, →ISBN, page 294:
      You surely would have abandoned it as chicken-heartedly as you refused to stand up to him in the field.
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