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Meanings of Milquetoast in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "chicken"
Examples for "chicken"
1
It's difficult to know which comes first in this particular chicken-or-egg scenario.
2
From its natural home in India the chicken spread east and west.
3
Its products include chicken, meat, dairy products, meat-type ducks and veterinary drugs.
4
For the main course, there is the option of chicken or fish.
5
Government and health officials have stressed that well-cooked chicken cannot infect people.
1
Cigarette was never yet ungrateful; it is the sin of the coward.
2
It is better that way, though it may be the coward's way.
3
He was no traitor; he was no coward; he was no liar.
4
Education subdues or obliterates the best of fighting in the coward only.
5
Too much bravery in man makes a bully; not enough a coward.
1
Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven subservience as piety.
2
Then you understand how craven it is to deny workers minimum wage.
3
Every minister and bureaucrat too self-interested or too craven to speak up.
4
Sourly he accepted defeat, raging in his craven spirit at the necessity.
5
Liar and craven will I dub you throughout the whole of France.
Usage of Milquetoast in anglès
1
They channel neither Evel Knievel nor Caspar Milquetoast, neither lion tamer nor monk.
2
Before long they'll start to disobey us without any Milquetoast interfering with their circuits.
3
Dr Milquetoast continued to work, even more energetically than before.
4
You've been Caspar Milquetoast Two ever since we left Base.
5
There have always been Marvin Milquetoast and Walter Mitty kinds of guys out there.
6
We had half a mind to stop in, and ask if Mr. Milquetoast was home.
7
He wasn't called Dr Milquetoast, but he should have been and that's what I'll christen him.
8
He called Dr Milquetoast into his office.
9
He practically insinuated that Milquetoast and his colleagues, by falling behind their deadlines, were guilty of un-American inactivity.
10
Basically, I wanted to know if it was intrinsically better to be an Evel Knievel or a Caspar Milquetoast?
11
Somewhere tucked away in Karl's capacious memory units was a superb collection of insults, lovingly assembled by Dr Milquetoast.
12
The coroner, one Jason Kirchner, was an inoffensive-looking little fellow with a Caspar Milquetoast mustache and an underslung jaw.
13
We might even chuckle at the Marvin Milquetoast behaviors of these men as portrayed in comic strips and television sitcoms.
14
Dr Milquetoast was not the sort of man to explain the error, even if the General had given him the opportunity.
15
The New Yorker, November 5, 1949 P. 46 PROFILE of Harold Tucker Webster, the creator of Caspar Milquetoast.
16
The engineers are still trying to unravel the circuits that Dr Milquetoast installed, and no doubt it's only a matter of time before they succeed.
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