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Meanings of milquetoast in English
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 English
1
The pastiest milquetoast emerges ready to scale oil rigs and wrestle crocodiles.
2
At part throttle, this may as well be a milquetoast Malibu sedan.
3
Or will any representative do? His gaze fell on Wensicia's milquetoast husband.
4
Similarly milquetoast messages went out from university officials to their faculty and students.
5
If we are getting a milquetoast fourth quarter what will next year look like?
6
A few weeks later, naturally enough, the poor milquetoast will be desiccated and submerged.
7
Miles O'Brien released a predictably milquetoast statement through CNN.
8
And that is why milquetoast concepts serve no one.
9
The milquetoast drumming leaves much to be desired.
10
Their taste in reforms has been accordingly milquetoast.
11
Dark though Stereotypes might have been, only a milquetoast could deny it was also truly electrifying.
12
This was no milquetoast nouveau riche businessman.
13
It also benefits from Nintendo's signature gentle playfulness and levels of technical polish, but it's all so milquetoast.
14
For all of his plotting and metaphoric moustache-twirling, surrounded by a group of equally privileged friends, he's milquetoast.
15
A newfound appetite for milquetoast TV?
16
How milquetoast can you get?
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Milquetoast through the time