different between unconscionable vs pusillanimous

English

un- +? conscionable

(General Australian) IPA^(key): /?n?k?n.??n.?.b?l/, /?n?k?n?.n?.b?l/, /?n?k?n.??n.b?l/
(General American) IPA^(key): /?n?k?n??n?b?l/, /?n?k?n?n?b?l/, /?n?k?n??nb?l/

unconscionable (comparative more unconscionable, superlative most unconscionable)

Not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience.
- 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, p364)
  When Roger assured him that prospects "looked very good" for a retrial, even a reversal of the verdict, since Roger had discovered "unconscionable errors" in the trial, Jackson grunted in bemusement and smiled with half his mouth.
Excessive, imprudent or unreasonable.
The effective rate of interest was unconscionable, but not legally usurious.

Derived from Latin pusillanimis (“faint-hearted, timid”).

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.

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