Difference between Cowardly and Pusillanimous

COWARDLY vs PUSILLANIMOUS: ADJECTIVE

Showing cowardice. Lacking in courage, unacceptably fearful, usually meant with some implication of a lack of consideration for others.
Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base.
Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
Exhibiting the characteristics of a coward, particularly ignoble fear.

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

In the manner of a coward; dishonorably; basely.
Wanting courage to face danger, or to incur harm or pain; timid; timorous; fearful; pusillanimous.
Proceeding from fear of danger or harm; mean; base; befitting a coward: as, a cowardly action.
Synonyms Dastardly, craven, faint-hearted, chicken-hearted.
Lacking courage
Ignobly timid and faint-hearted

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

Funky, Faint, Yellow, Cringing, Fearful, Fainthearted, Cowering, Poltroon, Timid, Unmanly, Pusillanimous, Dastard, Dastardly, Craven, Coward

Funky, Faint, Yellow, Cringing, Fearful, Fainthearted, Cowering, Poltroon, Timid, Unmanly, Pusillanimous, Dastard, Dastardly, Craven, Coward

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.