milksop
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In any case, the new trio's dynamic works – beginning with Tennant's beleagured version of Fogg, a man of precision and privilege who's also seen as a milksop by his Reform Club peers.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2022
Thorne has a little list: "I still call people nincompoops, mainly to amuse my kids - lickspittle, twerp or milksop."
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2013
Poor David Hallberg, who as Des Grieux is given perhaps Mr. Neumeier’s most antimusical choreography, was made up to look like a spectral milksop.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2010
Early in the week, both houses ignored Rocky's threats that "the legislature cannot go home without strong and effective action on ethics," passed a milksop code by huge majorities.
From Time Magazine Archive
We thought him a milksop, a tame cat, a poor, weak, interloping, unprofitable creature who would sidle obsequiously into your house, and make his home there.
From The Four Corners of the World by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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