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
But he did not wait pusillanimously for the popular mind to make itself up; he had too high a conception of the duty of leadership for that.
From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland
The court-martial has denied this, in order to glorify this general, who died so pusillanimously.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
They have pusillanimously abandoned the remnant of La Romana's army in order not to delay its retreat a single half day.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
His life he exposed with careless gaiety; but it was said that he was nervously anxious and pusillanimously cautious when his professional reputation was in danger.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
