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Unconscionable vs Pusillanimous - What's the difference?

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Unconscionable is a related term of pusillanimous.


As adjectives the difference between unconscionable and pusillanimous

is that unconscionable is not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience while pusillanimous is showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity.

unconscionable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience.
  • * 2001 , , Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, p364)
    • When Roger assured him that prospects "looked very good" for a retrial, even a reversal of the verdict, since Roger had discovered "unconscionable errors" in the trial, Jackson grunted in bemusement and smiled with half his mouth.
  • Excessive, imprudent or unreasonable.
    • The effective rate of interest was unconscionable , but not legally usurious.

    pusillanimous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity
    • The soldier deserted his troop in a pusillanimous manner.
  • * 1882 — , On the Decay of the Art of Lying [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2572/2572.txt].
    • Therefore, the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

    Related terms

    * pusillanimously * pusillanimousness