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- adjective misspelling of
pusillanimous
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When I read the inspiring words of Rob Kall, exposing the pusilanimous media for their coverage of "tea parties", with virtually no coverage of the ongoing outrage and protestsagainst war, it was like comng home from a long, long journey.
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When I read the inspiring words of Rob Kall, exposing the pusilanimous media for their coverage of "tea parties", with virtually no coverage of the ongoing outrage and protestsagainst war, it was like comng home from a long, long journey.
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I cannot stand these fake pusilanimous reviews by a critic or DJ from radio station X that is paid $500.00 for a GEE WHIZ rating.
Bryan Singer's Valkyrie Review - This Year's Best WWII Film « FirstShowing.net 2008
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It just shows what pusilanimous puffballs they both are.
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Lately he has employed a lot of tortured logic to explain away the missteps of the Bush administration, but then, he had good training - he was on staff in the Nixon White House and supplied Vice President Spiro Agnew with some of the more memorable lines in the early 1970's when the veep lashed out at liberals as "nattering nabobs of negativism" and "pusilanimous pussyfooters."
November 2004 2004
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Prince Bentrik arrived in the midst of an impassioned tirade against pusilanimous traitors surrounding his Majesty who were betraying Marduk to the Space Vikings.
Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963
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Him they fell upon and rated for a pusilanimous cowardly dog (as Burnworth called him) that would desert them in an affair of such consequence, and then questioned whether Higgs himself would not betray them.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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This is the man whom scullions would fain degrade by the pusilanimous spite of expunging his name from national monuments and memorials, which owed their being to his patriotism and genius.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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Tom Thumb, from a plug-hat Bishop to a little pusilanimous dude preacher.
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` "Becase," says Jer, "if it isn't done you'll never be asy again," says he, "or pusilanimous in your mind," says he; "so ax no more questions, but do my biddin '," says he.
CJ2A commented on the word pusilanimous
I believe it was Gabby Hayes, old-time cowboy actor who referred to "bad guys" as "pusilanimous polecats." That help?
April 13, 2009
DepecheToad commented on the word pusilanimous
meaning 'timid' and 'cowardly'
June 10, 2009