Pusillanimous Sentence Examples

pusillanimous

  • A strong sense of duty, genuine piety, and a cautious but by no means pusillanimous common-sense coloured every action of his patient, laborious and eventful life.

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  • But it is also an example of the pusillanimous nature of contemporary political argument.

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  • A late and dubious tradition asserts that the family name became so discredited owing to the pusillanimous conduct of John and Edward Baliol that it was abandoned by its owners in favour of the form Baillie.

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  • Forever is a pusillanimous way of saying as long as I live.

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