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milquetoast

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Milquetoast (adj) means Weak and timid, with little courage or force.

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Weak and timid, with little courage or force.

"I should have listened to my mother when she told me to stay out of journalism because of idiot milquetoast jerk reporters like you!" — William G. Lycan, Fiction and Essence (1994)

"Like that well-meaning mom, parents employ Milquetoast speech whenever they whine, complain, plead, entreat, entice, bribe, and explain themselves persuasively." — John Rosemond, Command, Compel, Confirm (2007)

"And if Dick Leonard didn't appreciate Patrick's incisive criticism—if it inspired a streak of vindictiveness in his usually milquetoast boss and Dick ended up making his assistant's life miserable?" — Christopher Kelly, The Pink Bus (2016)

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