Word of the Day for Monday, March 14, 2011
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pusillanimous \pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muhs\, adjective:
pusillanimous \pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muhs\, adjective:
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Lacking in courage and resolution; contemptibly fearful; cowardly.
Lacking in courage and resolution; contemptibly fearful; cowardly.
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Okay, everyone, have you ever noticed how many of the Word of the Day words seem to be pointed directly at the B.O., like today's word, pusillanimous? If that doesn't describe much of how the B.O. comes across, then I don't know what does! So go ahead and confound your liberal friends and use the B.O. Word of the Day; it will be like they were hit with a verbal tsunami!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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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
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
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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
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
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You are now anxious to form excuses to yourself for a conduct so pusillanimous.-- Ann Radcliffe, The Italian
You are now anxious to form excuses to yourself for a conduct so pusillanimous.-- Ann Radcliffe, The Italian
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Pusillanimous comes from Late Latin pusillanimis, from Latin pusillus, "very small, tiny, puny" + animus, "soul, mind."
Pusillanimous comes from Late Latin pusillanimis, from Latin pusillus, "very small, tiny, puny" + animus, "soul, mind."
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