pusillanimous
lacking courage, afraid
TRANSLATION
kleinmütig, verzagt
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"The Doncaster story is about more than badly filed letters in Tony Blair's office and pusillanimous regional party officials ignoring warnings."
(Doncaster - a case for stronger councils, Independent, 18th Feb 1997)
(Doncaster - a case for stronger councils, Independent, 18th Feb 1997)
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know?
Wordwise: from the Middle English pusillanimus, from Late Latin pusillanimis : Latin pusillus, weak, diminutive of pullus, young of an animal + animus, reason, mind.
