milquetoast
Example Sentences
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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
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
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