pusillanimous

Their press revealed their flabbiness and pusillanimity.

Leur presse donnait l'expression de leur débilité et de leur lâcheté.

– Il faudrait le mettre en colère, reprit Rassi ; et d’ailleurs, lorsqu’il expédia le capitaine, il n’avait pas trente ans, et il était amoureux et infiniment moins pusillanime que de nos jours.

"He would have to be roused to anger first," Rassi went on; "and besides, when he made away with the captain he was not thirty, and he was in love, and infinitely less of a coward than he is in these days.