A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.
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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 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.
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.
6 He's sorry and won't do it again, and-well ,I'dhate a milksop .
7 You are most insulting; one would think I were a milksop .
8 And tell them to fetch that milksop Ogeron to the cabin.
9 For one who sets up for a milksop you have the readiest hand.
10 You are a greater milksop than I gave you credit for.
11 I must decide to be either a man or a milksop .
12 A bully, a coward, a puling milksop , is all the character he beareth.
13 Little milksop , travelling with a muff of a tutor, I suppose.
14 Are all to suffer because one chooses to be a milksop ?
15 But let this milksop of a President do his worst.
16 I was wild enough, but I promise you I was a milksop to him.
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