His life he exposed with careless gaiety; but it was said that he was nervously anxious and pusillanimously cautious when his professional reputation was in danger.
Yet had these men, under these circumstances, "pusillanimously cried for quarter," by the IV.
American Articles of War: "If any person in the Navy shall pusillanimously cry for quarter, he shall suffer death.
Sigismund did not dare to engage in battle with such overpowering numbers, and having stipulated for himself and his army free passage, he pusillanimously gave up the siege.
To accept such terms would have been both cowardly and suicidal, and the nation, therefore, driven to the sad alternative of war, determined rather to perish gloriously than to pusillanimously submit to be enslaved by the court.
It must not have the appearance that France feels herself less great and powerful than Spain; that France pusillanimously yields when Spain makes an unjust demand!
They shall not say of the man who took compassion upon the deserted and threatened orphan and raised her for his own egotistical wishes, and pusillanimously failed to finish the work he began!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pusillanimously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
