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milquetoast

noun as in timid person

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“Lol they’re worried about these milquetoast chats?” wrote Proud Boy chairman Enrique Tarrio on X. “Wait till they see mine.”

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And they don’t need to insist on running milquetoast moderates in the most liberal cities and districts.

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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.

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Awash in corporate cash and milquetoast rhetoric, most Democratic incumbents sound inauthentic while posturing as champions of the working class.

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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.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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