milquetoast

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Webster, an influential early-20th-century cartoonist of vaudevillian characters like Caspar Milquetoast.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2021

Milquetoast greeting card writer Erwin Trowbridge gets into a fight with his wife, Audrey, and wanders into a bar, where he meets three gamblers who appreciate his knack for picking winning horses.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2019

Or he could offer a Milquetoast response that appeased his employees and nodded at the issue without upsetting his relationship with the president.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2017

Musgraves is an urbane, smart-mouthed maverick who’s butted cheerfully up against country orthodoxies—it takes a pretty ham-handed production team to set her up like Molly Milquetoast.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2014

The coroner, one Jason Kirchner, was an inoffensive-looking little fellow with a Caspar Milquetoast mustache and an underslung jaw.

From Murder in the Gunroom by Piper, H. Beam