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milquetoast

noun as in timid person

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But whipping the votes for a nominee as milquetoast as Mangi, a BigLaw partner who’d practiced at the same New York City firm for nearly 25 years, should not have been especially difficult.

From Slate

Awash in corporate cash and milquetoast rhetoric, most Democratic incumbents sound inauthentic while posturing as champions of the working class.

From Salon

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.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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