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Six example sentences with pusillanimous, each labelled with its topic.
Later writers called the governor pusillanimous for signing away the harbour rather than putting the question to the assembly.
History
The film's pusillanimous clerk hides in the stockroom during every argument and still claims credit at the end.
Movies
A pusillanimous board postponed the decision for six meetings, and the rival firm bought the factory in the meantime.
Business
Columnists called the minister pusillanimous for dropping the reform the moment a single newspaper criticised it.
Politics
The narrator admits he was pusillanimous, letting his friend take the blame rather than confess to one broken window.
Literature
Fans called the coach pusillanimous for playing for overtime instead of taking the last shot of regulation.
Basketball
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