Chicken-hearted

chickenhearted

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Adj.

Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened.

Bunyan.

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Adj.

Timid; fearful; cowardly.

See also: chickenhearted

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

not brave; lacking courage; cowardly
These chicken-hearted bosses always seem to give in at the first sign of a strike.

lacking courage