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pusillanimous

adjective as in fearful

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Example Sentences

We probably shouldn’t knock pusillanimous lux skiing too hard.

But on this issue of Haredi service his pusillanimous silence has been disappointing and self-defeating.

Some advised the king to leave the field; but that prince rejected such pusillanimous counsel.

Of upright heart, but pusillanimous, he only saw rightly when his self-esteem was not at stake or his interest in danger.

He finally reached Rome, but the congregation of Cardinals, of course, rejected the king's pusillanimous petition.

As if the miserable, pusillanimous reprobates did not know it as well as you!

He had always been more or less pusillanimous in the face of winter.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pusillanimous, such as: afraid, chicken, cowardly, gutless, tame, and timid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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