milquetoast

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And even the milquetoasts who have hung in there until this point will feel compelled to hand it to him.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2022

It’s not that EU bike makers are an effete bunch of cheese-eating milquetoasts; they manufacture slow, underpowered e-bikes to avoid the draconian measures triggered by EU Directive 168/2013.

From The Verge • Apr. 16, 2021

To call the White House’s response “milquetoast” would be an insult to milquetoasts.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2017

Without being attacked as a bunch of milquetoasts who have lost our nerve?

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2015

And cotton, which is one of the milquetoasts of the plant world, cries out for all the help it can get.

From Time Magazine Archive