Thesaurus / pusillanimous
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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.
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We probably shouldn’t knock pusillanimous lux skiing too hard.
HOW COVID-19 COULD ACTUALLY BE GOOD FOR SKIINGMARC PERUZZINOVEMBER 20, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINESome advised the king to leave the field; but that prince rejected such pusillanimous counsel.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.I., PART E.DAVID HUMEOf upright heart, but pusillanimous, he only saw rightly when his self-esteem was not at stake or his interest in danger.
HISTORY OF JULIUS CAESAR VOL. 1 OF 2NAPOLEON III, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, 1808-1873.He finally reached Rome, but the congregation of Cardinals, of course, rejected the king's pusillanimous petition.
THE JESUITS, 1534-1921THOMAS J. CAMPBELLAs if the miserable, pusillanimous reprobates did not know it as well as you!
CLEMENCERETTA BABCOCKHe had always been more or less pusillanimous in the face of winter.
THE COURAGE OF MARGE O'DOONEJAMES OLIVER CURWOODThe pusillanimous king adopted the course suggested to him by the secret accuser.
A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF SPAIN; VOL. 4HENRY CHARLES LEAThe hour drew near: all hope was over; and Monmouth had passed from pusillanimous fear to the apathy of despair.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYThat pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from the Barbarians.
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIREEDWARD GIBBONIt only has a sickly foothold where the people are spiritually dominated by an ignorant or pusillanimous priesthood.
A BOOK WRITTEN BY THE SPIRITS OF THE SO-CALLED DEADC. G. HELLEBERGWORDS RELATED TO PUSILLANIMOUS
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- chicken-hearted
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- dastardly
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- retiring
- running scared
- scared
- shrinking
- shy
- soft
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak
- weak-kneed
- worthless
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
- aflutter
- afraid
- aghast
- agitated
- anxious
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- discomposed
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- hesitant
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervous
- nervy
- panicky
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- solicitous
- spineless
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- tremulous
- uneasy
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
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