How To Use Pusillanimous In A Sentence
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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.
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Of course, these allegations do need to be investigated, but I can't help but suspect that the timing is at best pusillanimous.
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... is worrying in pusillanimous Liberal way about gun crime in the Gazette ...
The Liberal Answer To Gun Crime
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PS I was in a play once where I used the word "pusillanimous".
Pusillanimous
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Perhaps by reviewing a few highlights from my former life I might be able to explain how I adopted this pusillanimous attitude.
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You can thank a crowd of pusillanimous state legislators for that.
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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
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With a pusillanimous flourish, I moved in - but simultaneously I made secret arrangements to maintain the lease on my own flat.
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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
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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.
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By this pusillanimous act he stained the honors of a military life; and the few days which he survived in Galata, or the Isle of Chios, were embittered by his own and the public reproach.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Eventually, by its own lights, the movie stands or falls by what it has to say about race, and this is pusillanimous and muddled.
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From the other end of the political spectrum come the pusillanimous speech codes on our college campuses.
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On his mission to Fort George he evidently perceived that there was to be no relief column from the pusillanimous Webb.
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Pray do not continue such pusillanimous writings.
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At daybreak the guns of the castle began to play upon the mosque, and, some of the shot penetrating its walls, the pusillanimous Jemal al-alum, being alarmed at the danger, judged it advisable to retreat from thence and to set up his standard in another quarter, called kampong Jawa, his people at the same time retaining possession of the mosque.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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And Washington is repeating the sins of the past while our pundits pusillanimously blank out.
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He will not want to be remembered for tuition fees, nor for the pusillanimous creation of foundation hospitals.
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The comedy is, however, pusillanimously counterweighted with a solemn and Oprah-ish subtext that these are way important issues.
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The authorities have been too pusillanimous in merely condemning the violence.
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It must have been great to say the 'pusillanimous' line.
Pusillanimous
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Only the South's pusillanimous response avoided a potentially violent confrontation this time.
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Neither of these pusillanimous reactions is remotely appropriate.
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Why, then, has the pseudo-skeptical pseudo-scientist who so pusillanimously shied away from revealing his name posted the quoted abracadabra as a supposed ‘review’ of my book?
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But I suppose we can rely on you to be as pusillanimous as ever.
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It is the most degenerous and pusillanimous temper of mind that can be.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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Wow, I haven't heard the word "pusillanimous" since the last time I watched "The Wizard of Oz"!
Took a ride on the reading
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The Energy White Paper of 2003 should have given a clear green light to a new nuclear reactor: instead, it pusillanimously avoided debate.
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The other Congress chief minister cannot be described as pusillanimous by any stretch of imagination.
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Meral Ece a Liberal Coucillor is worrying in pusillanimous Liberal way about gun crime in the Gazette.
The Liberal Answer To Gun Crime
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The redemption of Judas, the challenges of pusillanimous leadership and the sin of overweening arrogance are handled deftly in this timeless tale.
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Forever is a pusillanimous way of saying ‘as long as I live.’
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They are supposed to abhor pusillanimous or sycophantic behavior.
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He regretted, however, that the United States was unlikely to impose "the rule of law in countries like Iraq," partly because of "a pusillanimous fear of military casualties.
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The health motivation was pusillanimous and puritanical.
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Just so, pusillanimous; prattling out little moralities that have been prattled into them, and afraid to live life.
Chapter 32
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For the British, however, it has all turned to dust, surrendered by the pusillanimous politicians.
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‘Your little toadies seem a bit pusillanimous,’ she observed laconically, curious to see if he was as smart as they said he was.
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We have been laborious, contented, and prosperous; and if we have been reabsorbed by the mother country, in accordance with what I cannot but call the pusillanimous conduct of certain of our elder
The Fixed Period
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At least real conservatives stick by their guns, but you're the worst kind of pusillanimous, wobbling imbeciles.
Took a ride on the reading
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What is that defective being, with calfless legs and stooping shoulders, weak in body and mind, inert, pusillanimous and stupid, whose premature wrinkles and furtive glance, tell of misery and degradation?
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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Once again, those pusillanimous, patronising, mealy-mouthed lectionary compilers have excelled themselves.
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The man was not a grey-suit, not a whey-face, not a pusillanimous, coughing politician.
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He was just too pusillanimous to face me after I'd discovered that he had deceived me.
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Slave-Power; such apologists and supporters of Wrong; such pusillanimous, weak-hearted advocates of the unpopular Right; such slaves to Cotton and its threats, that we had almost lost the God-given independence of American freemen, and seemed -- thank God! events have proved only _seemed_ -- to be entirely given up to money and mechanics, to have become, indeed, a nation of peddlers.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
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Whose fault is it - the inadequate voters or the pusillanimous politicians?
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Moderator, I withdraw the 'pusillanimous' barb unreservedly.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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God forbid that we should get the implements with which to fashion our freedom, and then be too lazy or pusillanimous to fashion it.
