pusillanimity

• Encouraged by his pusillanimity, and more secure than ever of the support of the citizens who had been thrown into consternation by his demand of a second loan, nearly[12] six times as large as the first, it became more audacious and defiant than ever, D'Orleans openly placing himself at the head of the malcontents. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
• And so today at an anniversary event, the former chief of staff posing as an inheritor of the civil rights movement, scolds the successors of the supposed unionist monolith for their pusillanimity. —  Slugger O'Toole
• My only concession to my previous pusillanimity is that I still keep a fire blanket on the kitchen wall. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
• It is this kind of pusillanimity that multiculturalism fetes and celebrates and it is the same kind of pusillanimity that Islamists prey upon when they extract concessions by flaunting their bruised psyche. —  WordPress.com News
• He had held much commune with himself on the subject that morning; had called himself to task for his own pusillanimity, and had then fortified his courage with the old reflection about fair ladies and faint hearts--and also with a glass of brandy. —  The Bertrams

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