Chicken-heartedly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a chicken-hearted manner; fearfully derogatory

    "You surely would have abandoned it as chicken-heartedly as you refused to stand up to him in the field."

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"You surely would have abandoned it as chicken-heartedly as you refused to stand up to him in the field."

Etymology

From chicken-hearted + -ly.

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