(a.) Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince.
(a.) Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and want of courage; feeble; as, pusillanimous counsels.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a pusillanimous, jargon-ridden, self-perpetuating proof of Parkinson's law .
(2) Is there any Eurosceptic in this pusillanimous cabinet with the guts to speak his mind and put principles and country before personal ambition?” the Mail asks.
(3) To be a bystander when one's discipline does offer insights and methods of value discernment is pusillanimous.
(4) He was the government’s top Europe adviser at David Cameron’s side throughout Britain’s EU renegotiation, where some accused him of pusillanimity in the face of Brussels intransigence .
(5) Result: the normally admirable Mr Grieve risked seeming a pusillanimous ministerial jobsworth unwilling to let the public learn the full truth about our foolish and meddling heir to the throne.
(6) But to make that a reason to abandon the policy would be pusillanimous in the extreme.
(7) This may be just what ministers' friends say to appease backbench plotters feeling betrayed by the apparent pusillanimity of cabinet failure to jump after Purnell.
(8) The Mail made clear its frustration: “Is there any Eurosceptic in this pusillanimous cabinet with the guts to speak his mind and put principles and country before personal ambition?” But while the Times called Boris Johnson “right”, the Sun is expected to take a far tougher line on a man the paper has already outed, along with Michael Gove, as being on the side of in.
(9) Britain and France, Europe's two military heavyweights, took the lead on the Libyan intervention in the teeth of outright opposition from Germany and pusillanimity in Washington.
(10) Why aren’t these faithless, pusillanimous people retaliating as they should, by surging towards Ukip with cries of revenge against all Muslims?
(11) For some, Wapping planted a decisive nail in the coffin of what Andrew Neil, a former Murdoch editor, has described as "all that was wrong with British industry: pusillanimous management, pig-headed unions, crazy restrictive practices, endless strikes and industrial disruption, and archaic technology".
(12) But only nine days into his administration, Clinton found himself at a press conference explaining “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, an awkward (and many thought pusillanimous) compromise to permit gays and lesbians to serve in the military.
(13) The British government – pusillanimous as ever – thinks it is too sensitive a subject for us to ask the US why it is flouting an international agreement.
(14) The question then is, is this pusillanimity on his part?
(15) The pusillanimity of the remain campaign’s failure to counter these claims was indefensible.
(16) Amid so many humanitarian emergencies, it would be callous of Mr Cameron to pursue this nomination and pusillanimous of the secretary general to accept it.
(17) Heads should roll," he wrote on his website, "Isn't it really about time we decent, nice, liberal people stopped being so pusillanimously terrified of being thought 'Islamophobic' and stood up for decent, nice, liberal values?"
Quail
Definition:
(v. i.) To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
(v. i.) To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.
(v. t.) To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.
(v. i.) To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.
(n.) Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).
(n.) Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.
(n.) A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(2) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.
(3) The findings support our earlier suggestion that the kinetics of spermatogenesis in the quail are fundamentally similar to the pattern which has been described for mammals.
(4) Laminin is a constituent of the basement membrane in both chicken and quail blastoderms.
(5) Bidrin treatment of quail embryos results in axial anomalies as well as malformations of the beak and the limbs.
(6) Sporozoites were inoculated into the allantoic cavity of 7-day-old Japanese quail embryos (Coturnix coturnix japonica), after which the infected embryos were incubated at 41 C. In the chorioallantoic membrane mature first generation schizonts, mature second generation schizonts, and gametes were detected at 48 hr postinoculation of sporozoites (PI), 84 hr PI, and 126 hr PI, respectively.
(7) Respiration frequency increased during exposure to 35 (four birds) and 40 degrees C (six birds) in the normally hydrated quail, while in the dehydrated quail, respiration frequency increased only in three birds during exposure to 35 degrees C, and four birds during exposure to 40 degrees C, the frequencies were lower during dehydration.
(8) We conclude that the cellular mechanisms directing muscle fiber type-specific TnIf gene expression are mediated by cis-regulatory elements present on the introduced quail DNA fragment and that they control TnIf expression by affecting the accumulation of TnIf mRNA.
(9) However the characteristic fine structure and the high Na-KATPase content of the quail nasal gland suggest that it is a salt gland.
(10) The heart of the jungle bush quail is richly innervated.
(11) The presence of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was investigated in neuroretina sections from hatching quail embryos by immunocytochemistry.
(12) Lipid biosynthesis in the liver as well as transport into the follicles in Japanese quail were investigated depending on sexual maturity at 5, 7, 9 and 11 weeks of age.
(13) Both monensin and salinomycin had a reasonable safety margin in quail.
(14) The alternative exon sequences TnTf mRNAs expressed in anatomically distinct quail muscles can be correlated with sequences in TnTf protein isoforms in these chicken muscles.
(15) Both intestinal and uterine CaBP levels are higher in laying than in non-laying quails.
(16) The PGCs were picked up with a fine glass pipette, and one hundred were then injected into the terminal sinuses of 2-day-old Japanese quail embryos (24 somites); bubbles were then inserted to prevent haemorrhage.
(17) Of the four CFA determinants normally found in adult quail RBCs, only two were present on quail-chicken hybrid RBCs.
(18) For each of 12 transformed quail clones studied, it was possible to detect, after digestion with Kpn I, unique junctions between viral and cellular DNA.
(19) In eight bands of proteinase isozymes, the variation of band 5 (presence or absence) was detected among quails.
(20) This antibody binds transiently to a small number of brain vesicle cells in developing chick embryo as well as in quail embryo.