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What does chicken-hearted mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chicken-hearted? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. not brave; lacking courage; cowardly
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It is an unalloyed good, and it is sad to see our politicians responding with such chicken-hearted paranoia.
Obviously, David had noticed our unexpected visitors at the river and made for home as fast as his chicken-hearted legs could carry him.
It is incumbent upon me, as leader, to stamp out this sort of morale-sapping, chicken-hearted nonsense.
Why, they turned out to be kind of chicken-hearted after all.
Chicken-hearted people always feel that the other guy is either equally chicken-hearted or plain crazy.
I can't imagine what is the matter with me to-day, I'm as chicken-hearted as a woman.

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