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

News outlets ended up with articles bogged down in parsing federal law, carefully defining what exactly counts as an altercation, and quoting milquetoast official statements like “There was an incident and a report was filed.”

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2024

It’s a clip so milquetoast and lacking in moral clarity it’s cringe-inducing to watch.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024