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