chicken-heartedly

See also: chickenheartedly

English

Etymology

chicken-hearted +‎ -ly

Adverb

chicken-heartedly (comparative more chicken-heartedly, superlative most chicken-heartedly)

1. (derogatory) In a chicken-hearted manner; fearfully
   • 2008, Richard F. Miller, In Words and Deeds: Battle Speeches in History, →ISBN, page 294:

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