pusillanimous

• ‘I should not think of allowing him to be so pusillanimous,’ she said coldly. —  Wraiths And Changelings-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 53
• Hitler called this solution "pusillanimous," and however much one may condemn his strategy, yet it must be admitted that his will power and resolution were certainly commensurate with the magnitude of his aims In Hitler's favor it might be said that desperate situations demanded desperate remedies, and that pure defense never won a war. —  Panzer Battles
• Naturally dull and stupid; extremely illiterate; indecisive to a degree that would be incredible to one who did not know him; pusillanimous, and, of course, hypocritical; has no opinion on any subject, and will be always under the government of the worst men; pretends, as I am told, to some knowledge of military matters, but never commanded a platoon, nor was ever fit to command one. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
• All the world could see how pusillanimous was the royalty they had wished to preserve, and the masses made up their mind that, real or nominal, the institution was not only useless, but dangerous. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• The French and Latin tradition seems to the German pusillanimous, and connected with that decadence which he perceives in every expression of civilization from Athens to Paris. —  A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase

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