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milksop
noun as in weak or ineffectual person
Example Sentences
Luckily the third in command, Lieutenant Heady, was no milksop.
As may be supposed, no one after this ventured to call Ellis a milksop, or to speak disparagingly of him in any other way.
"Why, it would take a little pink milksop like Bertha Parkes to wear such colors as those," she said behind his back one day.
Wiser boys called me a milksop and various other names, which I furiously resented yet inwardly recognized as just.
Master Stewart might be a milksop, but Crispin accounted him leastways honest, and had a kindness for him in spite of all.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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