pusillanimous

1. ADJ If you say that someone is pusillanimous, you mean that they are timid or afraid. 懦弱的; 膽怯的[正式]

The authorities have been too pusillanimous in merely condemning the violence. 當(dāng)局過(guò)于懦弱，僅僅譴責(zé)了這場(chǎng)暴力行為。