milquetoast

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The 85-year-old label, tagged by the Observer as once being “synonymous with a particularly milquetoast suburban sensibility,” today posts fast-growing sales among famously fickle Gen Z shoppers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

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 • Jul. 30, 2025

The film around her is itself built on a fault line of contradictions — it’s at once tepid and sledgehammer-insistent, a slab of decadent milquetoast.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

Like King, the Bainbridge pastor was not advocating a milquetoast approach to governing.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024

Maybe if Congress were run by a serious comic rather than a milquetoast politician, we might do better.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2023