0 weak and cowardly (= not brave); frightened of taking risks:
Portrayals of partisan men as feminine, pusillanimous, dandies, or crying babies, all but disappeared during 1844.
By focusing so cogently on what a 'richer' composer can accomplish through his orchestration, for example, she exposes the pusillanimous, peremptory limits conventional analysts set on musical discourse.
This argument about the language barrier is about as mean as the pusillanimous motion which we are discussing.
The precise answer is nowhere, and no amount of pusillanimous and pious talk of concordats will alter the realpolitik that will govern.
I reject that answer as a pusillanimous one.
Surely, we are not so pusillanimous as that?
Sometimes we are weak, and not all that infrequently we may be pusillanimous.
I regard that as a pusillanimous point of view and one which ignores the realities of the world.
