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• n  contemptible fearfulness

• In a paroxysm of pusillanimity he abandons his career, his country, all hope of a meaningful existence.
• Red-blooded Americans are fed up with the word and its implication of pusillanimity.
• In Yugoslavia he was outraged by what he perceived to be the pusillanimity of the West, so he doled out $50 million to try to save Sarajevo from Serb depredations.

• pusillanimousness