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pusillanimous

adjective as in fearful

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It wasn’t entirely free of the pusillanimous approach he has taken thus far to Kennedy’s regime, however.

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Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.

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Columbia University, through a thoroughly pusillanimous capitulation to a multimillion-dollar threat from the Trump administration, has put that conviction in the grave.

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"It’s an unfortunate lost opportunity that speaks to the pusillanimous nature of Hollywood these days."

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The vice president had a reputation for being President Nixon’s attack dog and skewering political opponents as “nattering nabobs of negativism,” “vicars of vacillation” and “pusillanimous pussyfooters.”

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