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marieta
A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.
sissy
pansy
milksop
pantywaist
Portuguese
boiola
A person who lacks courage.
chicken
coward
craven
Synonyms
Examples for "
sissy
"
sissy
pansy
milksop
pantywaist
Examples for "
sissy
"
1
Hold still, you big
sissy
...
Look, Z, let me be honest here.
2
When he says he wants a singe, they call him a
sissy
.
3
Getting a restraining order-hell, that's kind of a
sissy
thing to do.
4
And I would have never stopped being such a
sissy
,
would I?
5
But he's kind of
sissy
for a serial killer, don't you think?
1
Well, they're no
pansy
flowers, but... m'lord has the truth of it.
2
Already the kids think I'm some kind of
pansy
because of you.
3
You're not going to raise him to be a
pansy
,
are you?
4
It is the
pansy
brooch that I gave to old Tom Darcy.
5
She has heard the word
'
pansy
'
,
then, and now understands it.
1
The session with the
milksop
from the Foundation had been quite unrewarding.
2
I am a
milksop
,
as I have had the honour to say.
3
You've gone to all the trouble to kidnap a timid little
milksop
.
4
She disliked her elder nephew exceedingly, and despised him as a
milksop
.
5
I called 'un a
milksop
,
and he hath proved me a liar.
1
In that world, what-iffing and problematizing are for
pantywaist
preachers and theo-babbling ecumenicists.
2
Safire calling me a
pantywaist
for retracting comment in New Yorker about Nigerians being low-life con artists.
3
But don't think I was one of those
pantywaists
that had it all given to me.
4
"
Pantywaist
,
"
he muttered and turned his gaze from the retreating threat.
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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