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Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 29, 2008 pusillanimous \pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muhs\, adjective: Lacking in courage and resolution; contemptibly fearful; cowardly. Evil, unspeakable evil, rose in our midst, and we as a people were too weak, too indecisive, too pusillanimous to deal with it. -- Kevin Myers, "An Irishman's Diary", Irish Times, October 20, 1999 Under the hypnosis of war hysteria, with a pusillanimous Congress rubber-stamping every whim of the White House, we passed the withholding tax. -- Vivien Kellems, Toil, Taxes and Trouble You are now anxious to form excuses to yourself for a conduct so pusillanimous. -- Ann Radcliffe, The Italian Pusillanimous comes from Late Latin pusillanimis, from Latin pusillus, "very small, tiny, puny" + animus, "soul, mind." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for pusillanimous Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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