Crossword-Solution: PUSILLANIMOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pusillanimous | a. | Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince. |
| Pusillanimous | a. | Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and want of courage; feeble; as, pusillanimous counsels. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “PUSILLANIMOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Louis minus pal (anag) – timid and fearful | 1 answer |
| Timid, lacking courage | 1 answer |
| Faint-hearted | 6 answers |
| Dastardly | 32 answers |
| craven | 33 answers |
| Lowly | 40 answers |
| Cowardly ___ | 45 answers |
| Unfaithful | 52 answers |
| Apostate | 53 answers |
| recreant | 56 answers |
| Detestable | 61 answers |
| Faithless | 61 answers |
| Disloyal | 63 answers |
| Yellow | 63 answers |
| Despicable | 66 answers |
| traitorous | 71 answers |
| Fearful | 72 answers |
| Untrue | 75 answers |
| Treacherous | 76 answers |
| irresolute | 82 answers |
| Weak | 86 answers |
| False ___ | 91 answers |
| Base | 97 answers |
| Mean | 110 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PUSILLANIMOUS (5)
There’s the whole pusillanimous truth of it!” “Oh, if it’s the WHOLE truth!----” She let him clasp her.
Besides, in dealing with contemporary life a novelist is goaded into too many pusillanimous concessions to plausibility.
They represented to him the concentrated essence of all that was pusillanimous, disgusting, loathsome in that other world that was as far separated from him as though he had been a grubworm in the manure pile back of Brady's livery stable.
And the consciousness of all this in her charming eyes was so clear and fine that as she thus publicly drew him into her boat she produced in him such a silent agitation as he was not to fail afterwards to denounce as pusillanimous.
But the fierce old hag began to get angry and show a glimpse of her diabolic nature (like a snake’s head, peeping with a hiss out of her bosom), at this pusillanimous behavior of the thing which she had taken the trouble to put together.
Quotes with PUSILLANIMOUS (3)
How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding - escaping encounters, avoiding surprises, protecting their property, ignoring their fantasies, restricting their feelings, sitting out the pan pipe hootchy-kootch of experience - maybe those people, people who won't talk to rednecks, or if they're rednecks won't talk to intellectuals, people who're afraid to get their shoes muddy or their noses wet, afraid…
But if it be true, as every prospect assures us, that the human race shall not again relapse into its ancient barbarity; if every thing ought to assure us against that pusillanimous and corrupt system which condemns man to eternal oscillations between truth and falsehood, liberty and servitude, we must, at the same time, perceive that the light of information is spread over a small part only of our globe; and the number of those who possess real instruction, seems to vanish i…
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1976).