We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of Milquetoast in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "sissy"
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.
Usage of Milquetoast in inglês
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.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Milquetoast through the time