English edit

Etymology edit

chickenhearted +‎ -ly

Adverb edit

chickenheartedly (comparative more chickenheartedly, superlative most chickenheartedly)

  1. Alternative form of chicken-heartedly
    • 1992, Michel Leiris, Richard Howard, Manhood: A Journey from Childhood Into the Fierce Order of Virility, →ISBN, page 101:
      Only one way, then, remains by which I can reinstate myself in this tragic atmosphere which I have chickenheartedly avoided;