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pusillanimousadjective having or showing a shameful lack of couragepusillanimous politicians who vote according to whichever way the political wind is blowing chicken, chicken-livered, chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, gutless, lily-livered, milk-livered(archaic), poltroon, recreant, spineless, unheroic, yellow diffident, fainthearted, fearful, timid, timorousafraid, frightened, scaredcareful, cautious, warybashful, coy, shyfeeble, soft, unmanly, weak brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, hardy, heroic(also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous audacious, bold, brazen, cheeky, nervyplucky, spirited, spunkydetermined, resolute cowardly, pusillanimous, craven, dastardly mean having or showing a lack of courage.cowardly implies a weak or ignoble lack of courage.a cowardly failure to stand up for principle pusillanimous suggests a contemptible lack of courage.the pusillanimous fear of a future full of possibility craven suggests extreme defeatism and complete lack of resistance.secretly despised her own craven yes-men dastardly often implies behavior that is both cowardly and treacherous or skulking or outrageous.a dastardly attack on unarmed civilians in the 15th century |