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pusillanimous
English
Etymology
Derived from Latin pusillanimis (“faint-hearted, timid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pju?s?l?æn?m?s/, /pju?s?l?æn?m?s/
- Rhymes: -æn?m?s
Adjective
pusillanimous (comparative more pusillanimous, superlative most pusillanimous)
- Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity. [from 16th c.]
- The soldier deserted his troop in a pusillanimous manner.
- 1882 — Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying [1].
- Therefore, the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.
Related terms
- pusillanimously
- pusillanimousness
- pusillanimity
Translations
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scared
English
Etymology
scare +? -ed
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sk??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /sk???d/
- Rhymes: -??(r)d
Adjective
scared (comparative more scared or scareder, superlative most scared or scaredest)
- Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:afraid
Translations
Verb
scared
- simple past tense and past participle of scare
Anagrams
- Cerdas, Dacres, Des Arc, caders, cadres, cedars, crased, decars, e-cards, ecards, sacred
scared From the web:
- what scared and shocked miss caroline
- what scared the speaker in the beginning of the poem the raven
- what scared all of the occupants
- what scared the farmers into hiding
- what scared the group in the attic
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- what scared ned on kwajalein and eniwetok
- what scared the shoshone brave away
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