milksop

Anthony Weiner: Is this man — this milksop, this harlequin in boxers — actually single-handedly responsible for our current political reality?

“Took you all for milksops at first. Deepest apologies,” he added, with a bow.

As the scroll fell back down into the road yet again, Constance called aloud, “Put some energy into it, you little milksop. I’m not hanging about here all day.”

Gray displayed his politics with disarming plainness – he believed in Scottish independence and socialism; I was a milksop unionist and social democrat.

If you’ll remember, Dante didn’t have enough respect for milksops to give them a special place inside hell.