pusillanimous
She pusillanimously turned her back on the trade deal.
Next year the opera moves to its new home, which the authorities pusillanimously refuse to call an opera house.
Our culture has pusillanimously surrendered to the new prohibitionism.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cowardly
be afraid of your own shadowidiom
bottle
bottle out
chicken
chicken out
cravenness
fainthearted
gutless
lily-livered
pantywaist
spinelessness
timid
timidity
timidly
timorous
unheroic
weak-kneed
wimp
wimp out
wimpy