lily-liveredly

Adverb

lily-liveredly (comparative more lily-liveredly, superlative most lily-liveredly)

1. (rare) In a lily-livered manner.
   • 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.1928 December 28, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “[…] It’s Either You Fight or You Die”, in Aldous Huxley, editor, The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, published 1932, →OCLC...
   • 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.2010, Gregory Dark, chapter 11, in Charming! or, If the Glass Slipper Fits…, Ropley, Hampshire: O Books, →ISBN, page 50