A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.
A person who lacks courage.
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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 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 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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