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
In your article you imply that Prince Bismarck is "commonplace," "Babbitt-tailored," a "fop," a "milksop."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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