It is pusillanimous to leave a friend behind to face a danger alone. From LearnThat.org.
It must have been great to say the 'pusillanimous' line. From Wordnik.com. [Pusillanimous] Reference
PS I was in a play once where I used the word "pusillanimous". From Wordnik.com. [Pusillanimous] Reference
Wow, I haven't heard the word "pusillanimous" since the last time I watched "The Wizard of Oz"!. From Wordnik.com. [took a ride on the reading] Reference
At least real conservatives stick by their guns, but you're the worst kind of pusillanimous, wobbling imbeciles. From Wordnik.com. [took a ride on the reading] Reference
While giving a commencement speech at the Jesuit-run Loyola College, Lesley Stahl said "pusillanimous," adding that "it doesn't have nothing to do with" p--- y. ". From Wordnik.com. [Morning Memo: OMFG! Lydia Hearst is Engaged! Also, Leslie Stahl Channels <i>Serial Mom</i>] Reference
Indignant at this pusillanimous policy, Solon devised. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
The people advocating this are a bunch of pusillanimous cowards. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2006] Reference
Shareholders might want to write their pusillanimous representatives in Congress about that. From Wordnik.com. [Hank Greenberg Shares The Blame For AIG's Pain] Reference
The Elector thought this pusillanimous; he wished to be bolder and more spirited than Luther. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
In England the lack of firing (according to our pusillanimous critics) was positively repulsive. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917] Reference
He felt, now when it was too late, that his position had been one of almost pusillanimous negligence. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
BENNETT: Well again, I think the policy is feckless, pusillanimous, it's gutless, but it's also witless, I think. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2009] Reference
This was followed by others, acting in the same pusillanimous style, and at least two-thirds of the army never fired a shot. From Wordnik.com. [A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851] Reference
Suppose that, in searching the ruins of ancient Greece, we found nothing but pusillanimous, sham imitations of Egyptian art. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
To have defied the King would have been heroic, and there is a wide interval between failing of heroism and being pusillanimous. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
His pusillanimous conduct in the siege of Visby had gradually dawned upon the king, and ere the close of 1524 report was spread that. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
He is admired as the only one standing firm against the Maoists and Pakistan in a government considered pusillanimous on both counts. From Wordnik.com. [Sunil Sharan: Shunned, Will He Bolt?] Reference
For this pusillanimous policy there were several reasons, the greatest being a fear of a Basuto rising and the trouble it would entail. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Had the unlucky and pusillanimous Mr. Forster appeared at that moment, he "would certainly," as Mr. Patten relates, "have been cut to pieces.". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Cabinet group, demanding radical action in the way of intervention, was insisting that we intervene and put an end to the pusillanimous rule of. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
She'll know it's them because of the way they speak: “Picture cup's pusillanimous balcony temperature;” “Sway light with electricity flower.”. From Wordnik.com. [Animals, Animals, Animals] Reference
Thus you may see that honest men are excessively grieved by the dishonest, the brave by the pusillanimous, those who lead sober lives by the dissolute. From Wordnik.com. [De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream] Reference
It is difficult to decide, whether this strange conduct originated in a pusillanimous dread of French resentment, or a traitorous disaffection to his Sicilian. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
Shea, whose other clients include that most American of products, Nathan's Famous hot dogs, crafted the perfect response to the pusillanimous pundits of patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: Meet Me In St. George's] Reference
I tell you what it is, Vernon, they were all a pack of pusillanimous time-servers, frightened at their own shadows; and, between you and me and the bedpost, that chap, Jimmy. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
The artist (he hopes) comes off as a genius just a little too brilliant for this dumbed-down world, and the museum comes off as a stuffy, pusillanimous censor of real creativity. From Wordnik.com. [Art Under Wraps--Literally] Reference
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