pusillanimously

The emergency intercom was flickering its red call light pusillanimously.

"I will be pusillanimously careful."

Her heart pounded pusillanimously during such hesitations, anticipating the consequence of a prolonged delay in mid-ocean.

After the furore which greeted our first Report I felt - perhaps pusillanimously - that we should excise this explanatory passage.

- even the accelerometer was jumping around: 3.8, then 4.9, at one point pushing its way up to 5, only to plummet pusillanimously back down to 3.

Thanks to them and other creative artists on their level, I have been able to fill many a yawning column with appreciative publicity pusillanimously disguised as negative criticism.

But the film's most promising idea, which glimmers faintly only to be pusillanimously extinguished, is that David's pursuit of the beautiful house and beautiful wife, to invoke an old Talking Heads song, has left him wondering how he got here.

He had had to confess to Aunt Lin that a piece of evidence had turned up at the time specified in her prayers, but had pusillanimously refrained from telling her that the said evidence was good enough to destroy the police case.