pusillanimous
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Pusillanimous or simply prudent; or perhaps cruelly unjust, to a person who had paid penalties and greatly needed kindness?
From The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons by Symons, Arthur
Pusillanimous, pū-si-lan′i-mus, adj. wanting firmness of mind: of small courage: having a little mind: mean-spirited: cowardly.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Pusillanimous companion, I am the blossom of the city and the luminary of the people; my presence gives life to the plains, and my harmony cultivates the desert.
From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by Clouston, William Alexander
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