Pusillanimous

Word of the Day for Thursday April 28, 2005

pusillanimous \pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muhs\, adjective:
Lacking in courage and resolution; contemptibly fearful;
cowardly.

Evil, unspeakable evil, rose in our midst, and we as a
people were too weak, too indecisive, too pusillanimous to
deal with it.
--Kevin Myers, "An Irishman's Diary," [1]Irish Times,
October 20, 1999

Under the hypnosis of war hysteria, with a pusillanimous
Congress rubber-stamping every whim of the White House, we
passed the withholding tax.
--Vivien Kellems, Toil, Taxes and Trouble

You are now anxious to form excuses to yourself for a
conduct so pusillanimous.
--Ann Radcliffe, The Italian
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Pusillanimous comes from Late Latin pusillanimis, from Latin
pusillus, "very small, tiny, puny" + animus, "soul, mind."
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Headshot of the cowardly lion I found:


I took this earlier this year of a Macy's window, Fonzi Bear as the cowardly lion


Small brained organism/soul:


this morning, a taxi cut off a biker. the biker got pissed and used his radio to get lots of messengers to confont this taxi. To me that's cowardly, if you have a beef, go mano-a-mano. don't call in reinforcements dude: