Pusillanimous in a sentence as an adjective

It's like writing "pusillanimous" when you want to say "nice" -- the chosen word is both unnecessarily fancy and wrong.

> Or is the word pusillanimous a derogatory term?

Or is the word pusillanimous a derogatory term?

Detaching a post from its parent and marking it as off-topic seems to me a pretty pusillanimous semantic difference to outright deletion.

He was an amazing, contradictory character, a larger-than-life sort who holds far more interest than the pusillanimous toady Rove.

This use of they isn't ungrammatical, it isn't a mistake, it's a feature of ordinary English syntax that for some reason attracts the ire of particularly puristic pusillanimous pontificators, and we don't buy what they're selling.

I just love the line"This use of they isn't ungrammatical, it isn't a mistake, it's a feature of ordinary English syntax that for some reason attracts the ire of particularly puristic pusillanimous pontificators, and we don't buy what they're selling.

Your pusillanimous attitude towards expletives is copulatively ridiculous.

Pusillanimous definitions

adjective

lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful

See also: poor-spirited unmanly