possible profanity
4
recreant(adjective, feature, characteristic, quality, cowardly)
4
reticent(adjective, feature, characteristic, quality, weak)
4
skittish(adjective, character, characteristics, traits)
4
terrified(adjective, character, characteristics, traits)
4
tremulous(adjective, feature, characteristic, quality, timid)
4
unmanly(adjective, character, characteristics, traits)
3
be anxious(verb, action, meet, process, dealing)
3
caitiff(adjective, feature, characteristic, quality)
3
careful(adjective, weak, character, characteristics, traits)
3
chicken-livered(adjective, characteristic, fearful, coward)
3
chickenhearted(adjective, characteristic, fearful, coward)
3
dastard(adjective, attribute, characteristics, traits)
3
diffident(adjective, character, characteristics, traits)
3
execrable(adjective, attribute, characteristics, traits)
3
faint-hearted(adjective, attribute, characteristics, traits)
3
fearsome(adjective, attribute, characteristics, traits)
3
hide(verb, action, act, yield, surrender)
3
milk-livered(adjective, characteristic, fearful, coward)
3
poltroon(adjective, characteristic, fearful, coward)
3
shocked(adjective, character, characteristics, traits)
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