Lily-livered used in a sentence

Lily-livered in a sentence as an adjective

Dinner where he ripped both Bush and the lily-livered press new ones?

It does raise moral issues, yes - but if you have already decided, "we must punish the institution," then you fatally compromise that goal by adding a lily-livered "but let's not make things too hard for the members.

So according to the story's only named sources, the co-founders of Fluent, the reason Fluent failed was because it was so breathtakingly ambitious that it scared lily-livered investors away; but don't worry, kids, the founders had so much integrity they turned away multiple acqui-hire offers from "other red-hot Valley startups.