lily-livered im PONS Wörterbuch

Übersetzungen für lily-livered im Englisch»Bulgarisch-Wörterbuch

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

lily-livered

малодушен

lily-livered

страхлив

Übersetzungen für lily-livered im Bulgarisch»Englisch-Wörterbuch

страхопъ̀зльо <-то, -вци> SUBST m, страхопъ̀зл|а <-ата, -и> SUBST f ugs

страхопъзльо

lily-livered person

страхопъзльо

chicken

Einsprachige Beispiele (nicht von der PONS Redaktion geprüft)

Englisch

They usually say this issue is the product of our current generation of parents being too lily-livered.

news.nationalpost.com

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

www.vanguardngr.com

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

What a lily-livered bunch they are.

www.independent.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

This lily-livered defeatism needs to be challenged.

theconversation.com

I kept just sort-of smiling back, feeling as lily-livered as the shirts of my betrayed heroes.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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

What about destroying statues of the sanctimonious and the censorious, the sectarian and the dogmatic, the ideologically driven and the lily-livered?

www.independent.co.uk

Most of them are lily-livered.

www.vanguardngr.com