Sometimes Polite Language Will Not Suffice
When asked for a newspaper-safe synonym for “chickenshit,” the best I could come up with was “disrespectful.”
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Petty?
A little better.
Petty. Spitefully crude. Bob Ewell in “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
Too wordy.
also consider niggling, paltry, pettifogging,and picayune
Not even close.
intellectually dishonest or disengenuous
Mickey-Mouse
Over here in the uk most papers would put chickens**t
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John Gibson
When I think “chickenshit”, I think “petty and offensive”. If you want a substitute phrase, that’s what I’d use. “Mickey-Mouse” isn’t offensive enough.
(I.m not saying the word is offensive; it describes something that is offensive.)