milksop

Example Sentences

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

From The Guardian

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

From Washington Times

Today’s milksop egalitarians probably will flinch from such a robust attack on inequality, assisted by the rats that carried the fleas whose intestines carried the bacterial strain.

From Washington Post

For her party’s populist faction, the result confirms that she was a centrist throwback, a milksop out of touch with the public mood.

From Economist

Still, this is one of Ashton’s most sentimental and thin creations; I can’t enjoy the way Marguerite continually abases herself to both Armand and his father; and why are the surrounding men such milksops?

From New York Times