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milquetoast
[ milk-tohst ]
noun
- a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated:
a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.
milquetoast
/ ˈmɪlkˌtəʊst /
noun
- a meek, submissive, or timid person
Word History and Origins
Origin of milquetoast1
Word History and Origins
Origin of milquetoast1
Example Sentences
And Tracy Brown praises “Andor’s” Kyle Soller: “It’s a credit to Soller’s performance that I could also have so much empathy for such an obsessive and off-putting milquetoast.”
It’s a credit to Soller’s performance that I could also have so much empathy for such an obsessive and off-putting milquetoast.”
Redeeming democracy is not about whatever milquetoast “mainstream” coalition can just barely win the next election against Donald Trump or Nigel Farage or Germany’s AfD or whomever else.
With Trump causing further chaos to world economies, Canadians were seeking a particularly Canadian fix: a milquetoast man in a suit who knows how the economy works and will likely do nothing revolutionary in the next few years.
The film around her is itself built on a fault line of contradictions — it’s at once tepid and sledgehammer-insistent, a slab of decadent milquetoast.
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