How to Use pusillanimous in a Sentence
pusillanimous
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Rifkin’s story should rage against the pusillanimous like Roth and the hero of Look Back in Anger.
—Armond White, National Review, 2022-02-04
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His pusillanimous and fraudulent conduct must be stopped.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2022-07-08
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Her predicament parallels Attila’s growing sense that much of his own work is pusillanimous and dangerously indulgent.
—Melanie Finn, New York Times, 2018-04-20
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This book should—but won’t—be read by Joe Biden’s national security team, not to mention the pusillanimous leaders of Germany and France.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes, 2022-08-02
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Goldwater’s presidential run gave voice to those who yearned for a real conservative, rejecting Dwight Eisenhower as a pusillanimous moderate.
—Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 2020-08-11
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American politicians, the pusillanimous and the mountebanks and even their opposites, used to be as highfalutin as Foghorn Leghorn with their gibes, which made politics fun for fans of Shakespeare, the Bible or obscure history.
—oregonlive, 2020-03-31
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