lily-liveredly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a lily-livered manner.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From lily-livered + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more lily-liveredly (comparative)
most lily-liveredly (superlative)