milquetoast
Example Sentences
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I still don’t know, and I’m less keen to find out now that the brand has tied its cart to the milquetoast Benson Boone—who must be absolutely steaming about how quickly Alex Warren has stolen his thunder in the ongoing youth group-ification of the Billboard charts.
From Slate
Being a moderate doesn’t mean being milquetoast.
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
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.”
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a credit to Soller’s performance that I could also have so much empathy for such an obsessive and off-putting milquetoast.”
From Los Angeles Times
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