Why had he been so pusillanimous all this time?

Major Pierson, however, was not so pusillanimous.

I haven't been quite so pusillanimous, however, as it would seem, for I have got Nick Long to superintend my campaign.

This proposal of disbanding was a step so pusillanimous and dishonourable that it could not be approved by any council, however composed.

"Ah," said Olympia, disappointed, "if you were in health, you would not be so pusillanimous, my child.