milquetoast
Example Sentences
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But one can argue that Adjani couldn’t have gotten there without the slightly milquetoast banality of her character’s husband, played by Neill as one of the least exciting on-screen spies of the 1980s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
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
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
