Meaning of lily-liveredly | Babel Free

Definitions

In a lily-livered manner.

rare

Examples

“It’s either you fight or you die. / Young Gents, you’ve got no option. / No good asking the reason why, / It’s either you fight or you die, / Die, die, lily-liveredly die, / Or fight and make the splinters fly, / Bust up the holy apple pie. / You’ve got no option.”

“If more rootin’ countries acted decisively like tootin’ Zanoria and not lily-liveredly like rootin’-tootin’ France the better place the whole rootin’-tootin’ planet’d be.”

“Afraid my emotions would betray me, I repressed my instincts and lily-liveredly accepted the accusations of authority that she wouldn’t, rather than her protestations that she couldn’t.”

“Taking a deep breath, Rafael made himself face up to the facts he’d stupidly and lily-liveredly shied away from in an absurd effort to distance himself from Nicky and the way she made him feel, his pulse racing and his breathing shallowing.”

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