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Significats de pusillanimous en anglès

Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful.

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Thus stretched in unmanly indolence on their cushions, they feast on delicacies.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
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I call it unmanly to tease and quarrel, and contradict like that.
What Katy Did at School
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Soft, but with no unmanly softness; luxuriant, but with no unmannered luxury.
Val d'Arno / Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent ...
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To slavishly follow others is, to say the least of it, unmanly.
A Trip Abroad / An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan an...
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O, it was impious; it was unmanly; it was poor and pitiful!
Parker's Second Reader / National Series of Selections for Readi...
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I am sure it is very poor-spirited to be afraid of dragons.
Empire of Ivory
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It would have been a poor-spirited company if there had been none.
Adventures of a Despatch Rider
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After all, Jane was too poor-spirited a victim to afford long entertainment.
The Nether World
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I should be a poor-spirited fool to stay where I'm not wanted.
The Woman Thou Gavest Me; Being the Story of Mary O'Neill
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I suppose I'm a poor-spirited creature, but that is how I feel.
Anne of the Island
Ús de pusillanimous en anglès
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The impulse that drove me from the scene was pusillanimous and cowardly.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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The tone of the proclamation was so moderate as to seem pusillanimous.
Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
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They criticized vehemently their rulers' readiness to yield as pusillanimous and injudicious.
Greece and the Allies, 1914-1922
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Did he reject the patriarchal order-likesome poor pusillanimous cry-babies among us?
The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West
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But the pusillanimous policy which prompted the embargo survived its repeal.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 / A Magazine...
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Numbers of the ignorant and pusillanimous sort closed with the offer.
The Life of General Francis Marion
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It would have been pusillanimous, cowardly, and unworthy the Governor of the State.
The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873
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Surely, on no other occasion should I have been thus pusillanimous.
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
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Now ye shall drop these pusillanimous dreams-theEnglish shall go in three days!
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1
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In front of the Commons public accounts committee yesterday, Stevens gave a pusillanimous response.
The Guardian
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Jefferson's policy of commercial embargo seemed pusillanimous to Jackson and the other Western Democrats.
The Promise of American Life
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He never used the word "pusillanimous", but that was what he meant.
Firewall
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He had no pusillanimous notion of the unworthiness of revenge.
Philip Winwood / A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American...
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They entitled their piteous and pusillanimous appeal, "The Groans of the Britons."
The Leading Facts of English History
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I could not help being affected with this pusillanimous behaviour.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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It was, to their minds, an anticlimax, a pusillanimous surrender.
Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
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