pusillanimous
adjective
lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
pusillanimously
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a word derived from
pusillanimous.
Example Sentences
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In the old law it was directed against one who "pusillanimously cries for quarter"; in the new, it is one who "is guilty of cowardly conduct."
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet had these men, under these circumstances, "pusillanimously cried for quarter," by the IV.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
But, considering the vastness of the interests at stake, its difficulty is no reason for pusillanimously passing it by; but rather for devoting every energy to its mastery.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
Do you desire to act so pusillanimously that your children one day will have to blush for their fathers?
From Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by F. Jordan
But whether in adopting this measure we are madly active, or weakly passive, or pusillanimously panic struck, the effects will be the same.
From Political Pamphlets by George Saintsbury
