pusillanimous

"We have again become pious"--so do those apostates confess; and some of them are still too pusillanimous thus to confess.

This counsel was indignantly derided by M'Lellan as pusillanimous. Hot-headed and impatient at all times, he had been rendered irascible by the fatigues of the journey, and the condition of his feet, which were chafed and sore.

He has fought battles here which he has lost, he is therefore a bad captain; he has succeeded in no negotiation, he is therefore a bad diplomatist; he has paraded his wants and his miseries in all the courts of Europe, he has therefore a weak and pusillanimous heart.

An argument fit for great and mighty princes to have in their hand; to the end that neither by over-measuring their forces, they leese themselves in vain enterprises; nor on the other side, by undervaluing them, they descend to fearful and pusillanimous counsels.

Why, you pusillanimous piece of dirt, you'd run with your tail between your legs if I said boo!"

But the fierce old hag began to get angry and show a glimpse of her diabolic nature (like a snake's head, peeping with a hiss out of her bosom), at this pusillanimous behavior of the thing which she had taken the trouble to put together.

"But infinitely more difficult for us," said I, with a sigh of pusillanimous relief.

It is a pusillanimous desertion of our work to gaze after our neighbors.

Wotan, ruler of the gods who has put into motion an horrendous trail of greed at the expense of simple happiness, emerges as the unpleasant, pusillanimous, vacillating creature he is.