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adv. - With a lack of courage and determination.

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  • Whitson, recall, was the venal HRW expert said to be pusillanimously soft on Saudi Arabia.
  • Do you desire to act so pusillanimously that your children one day will have to blush for their fathers?
  • And Jimmy Cagney – the most pusillanimously, quintessentially Irish-American actor of them all – was one-quarter Norwegian.
  • Stravinsky's "gift to Israel" of Abraham and Isaac cannot be pusillanimously demeaned as matter-of-factly "bought and paid for."
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