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Meanings of pusillanimous in inglês
Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful.
Synonyms
Examples for "unmanly"
Examples for "unmanly"
1
Thus stretched in unmanly indolence on their cushions, they feast on delicacies.
2
I call it unmanly to tease and quarrel, and contradict like that.
3
Soft, but with no unmanly softness; luxuriant, but with no unmannered luxury.
4
To slavishly follow others is, to say the least of it, unmanly.
5
O, it was impious; it was unmanly; it was poor and pitiful!
1
I am sure it is very poor-spirited to be afraid of dragons.
2
It would have been a poor-spirited company if there had been none.
3
After all, Jane was too poor-spirited a victim to afford long entertainment.
4
I should be a poor-spirited fool to stay where I'm not wanted.
5
I suppose I'm a poor-spirited creature, but that is how I feel.
Usage of pusillanimous in inglês
1
The impulse that drove me from the scene was pusillanimous and cowardly.
2
The tone of the proclamation was so moderate as to seem pusillanimous.
3
They criticized vehemently their rulers' readiness to yield as pusillanimous and injudicious.
4
Did he reject the patriarchal order-likesome poor pusillanimous cry-babies among us?
5
But the pusillanimous policy which prompted the embargo survived its repeal.
6
Numbers of the ignorant and pusillanimous sort closed with the offer.
7
It would have been pusillanimous, cowardly, and unworthy the Governor of the State.
8
Surely, on no other occasion should I have been thus pusillanimous.
9
Now ye shall drop these pusillanimous dreams-theEnglish shall go in three days!
10
In front of the Commons public accounts committee yesterday, Stevens gave a pusillanimous response.
11
Jefferson's policy of commercial embargo seemed pusillanimous to Jackson and the other Western Democrats.
12
He never used the word "pusillanimous", but that was what he meant.
13
He had no pusillanimous notion of the unworthiness of revenge.
14
They entitled their piteous and pusillanimous appeal, "The Groans of the Britons."
15
I could not help being affected with this pusillanimous behaviour.
16
It was, to their minds, an anticlimax, a pusillanimous surrender.
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