Difference between Coward and Pusillanimous

COWARD vs PUSILLANIMOUS: NOUN

A person who shows fear or timidity
One who shows ignoble fear in the face of danger or pain.
One who lacks courage to meet danger; one who shrinks from exposure to possible harm of any kind; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon; a craven.
In heraldry, an animal represented with the tail hanging down, or turned up between the legs, as a lion or other beast of prey. Also coué.
A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.
A person who lacks courage.
English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)

Cowardly.
Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.

Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, .
Lacking courage; cowardly.
Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and want of courage; feeble.
Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity

Lacking courage; timid; timorous; fearful; craven: as, a coward wretch.
Of or pertaining to a coward; proceeding from or expressive of fear or timidity: as, a coward cry; coward tremors.
To make afraid.

Lacking strength and firmness of mind; wanting in courage and fortitude; being of weak courage; faint-hearted; mean-spirited; cowardly.
Proceeding from lack of courage; indicating timidity.
Synonyms Poltroon, Dastard, etc. See coward.
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Weak, feeble, timorous, spiritless, effeminate, dastardly.
Contemptibly fearful

Faint, Yellow, Chicken, Cringing, Fainthearted, Fearful, Dastardly, Pusillanimous, Timid, Cowering, Craven, Unmanly, Poltroon, Dastard, Cowardly

Faint, Yellow, Chicken, Cringing, Fainthearted, Fearful, Dastardly, Pusillanimous, Timid, Cowering, Craven, Unmanly, Poltroon, Dastard, Cowardly

General Hux, whom he disdained as a coward.
How they may rush upon the coward foe.
Three dying like heroes, one as a coward.
This guy is a coward - plain and simple.
Michael Reinoehl was nothing if not a coward.
You voted as a coward out of fear.
TYPICAL RACIST COWARD black sheep are the worst.
Mack and Roscoe Coward, both of Lubbock, and Edgar Coward of Houston; one sister, Miss Lottie May Cowart of Lubbock, and two grandchildren.
Noel Coward is great at being Noel Coward, but the role I do best is Cary Grant.
Coward needed to prove that there was a contract in place between Coward and Cole for the lifts to work.

The persons most inclined to envy are of two quite different types, namely, the ambitious and the pusillanimous.
There are such women, and they will love you just as readily as any pusillanimous product of bourgeois sheltered life.
For if the Catholic attitude to Hitler was apprehensive and pusillanimous, many of the Protestant clergy were enthusiastic.
The trip was a pusillanimous and brutal trap in which Coleman lost several teeth and his tenor saxophone.
When we think allhopes are gone, must we, like poor pusillanimous wretches, despair and die?
Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain!
Sweet son in Christ, why are you so pusillanimous and timorous?
Let us not treat those we love with that pusillanimous disregard.
It exposed the republican party for what they are; pusillanimous jellyfish.
Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.