Definition of "pusillanimously" []

• In a pusillanimous manner (adverb)

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• "There was no hostile approach but there were several invitations to dinner and one proposal of marriage (these I, pusillanimously, failed to pass on)."
• "And Jimmy Cagney – the most pusillanimously, quintessentially Irish-American actor of them all – was one-quarter Norwegian."
• "Holder has the power to overrule that office, but pusillanimously chose not to do it (as he would certainly have done if Minor were a fundraiser for the GOP)."