Meanwhile Mr Maliki, no longer considered weak and pusillanimous, has continued to strengthen his own position.

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Shareholders might want to write their pusillanimous representatives in Congress about that.

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The American press not only had a field day reporting the details but not infrequently lectured their pusillanimous British colleagues about American ideas of press freedom.

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But whatever the geometry, this should not be seen as a stop-gap multi-speed Europe, with leaders and laggards, pioneers and free-riders, the bold and the pusillanimous.

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Hence his venomous anger at postwar England's "sycophantic, phlegmatic and pusillanimous" upper middle classes, among whom the right accent was far more valuable than a high IQ.

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These were dismissed by Mr Goldstone as "pusillanimous" because, he said, they relied almost exclusively on testimony from Israeli soldiers and included virtually no evidence from Palestinian victims.

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Pusillanimous political parties succumb to the smallest threats of violence.

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