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Перевод: pusillanimous
[прилагательное] малодушный
Тезаурус:
- For the headmaster, pusillanimous in action, was always ready to follow up the action of others.
- These occasions are only for humorists who enjoy the captains' and coaches' mumbled no-comments, and pusillanimous platitudes from grown men.
- The comfort and security you are chasing can only be temporary with pusillanimous people like you prancing around.
- The man was not a grey-suit, not a whey-face, not a pusillanimous, coughing politician.
- Thoughtful pagans regarded the ethical demand of the Christian proclamation as too tough to be practicable, and feared that the proclamation of peace and love to enemies would make the empire pusillanimous in self-defence.
- "Them pusillanimous popinjays, they couldn't find their way to skinning a cat on their own," he sneered.
- Sydney Smith had been wrong too; it seemed that the country was not even a healthy grave; though, judging from Edwin's pusillanimous letter, Smith might have been in the right when he suggested that there were three sexes - men, women and clergymen!
- Sam had been responsible for the departure of her mother's lover, but Pam had not complained openly, since it put all of them in a bad light: her lover had been revealed as pusillanimous, Sam as a harridan and herself as a person of no control or strength of will.
- Others would see the acceptance of this bounded walking environment as timid and pusillanimous.
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