pusillanimous

How To Use pusillanimous In A Sentence

• And yes, incidentally, I do know that it's ignoble and cowardly and pusillanimous, but I'll swap you for a decent night's sleep.
• Of course, these allegations do need to be investigated, but I can't help but suspect that the timing is at best pusillanimous.
• ... is worrying in pusillanimous Liberal way about gun crime in the Gazette ... The Liberal Answer To Gun Crime
• PS I was in a play once where I used the word "pusillanimous". Pusillanimous
• Perhaps by reviewing a few highlights from my former life I might be able to explain how I adopted this pusillanimous attitude.
• You can thank a crowd of pusillanimous state legislators for that.
• But it is certain that, in his youth, he was generally believed to possess, not merely that average measure of fortitude which qualifies a soldier to go through a campaign without disgrace, but that high and serene intrepidity which is the virtue of great commanders, [698] It is equally certain that, in his later years, he repeatedly, at conjunctures such as have often inspired timorous and delicate women with heroic courage, showed a pusillanimous anxiety about his personal safety. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
• With a pusillanimous flourish, I moved in - but simultaneously I made secret arrangements to maintain the lease on my own flat.
• But there are also the white clergy (and rabbi); usually, they were pusillanimous and hesitant to move more than a step or two beyond their conservative members, most of whom supported the egregious Jew-turned-Episcopalian Mayor Henry Loeb, who rivals in obduracy George W. Bush. Balkinization
• As the level of gambling increases, so does problem gambling that cannot possibly be avoided or dealt with by the pusillanimous measures in the bill.