A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.
Pejorative slur used against effeminate boys and men.
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Examples for "pansy "
Examples for "pansy "
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.
Having unsuitable feminine qualities.
A person of weak character who lacks courage and/or moral strength.
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?
6 All your life you haven't done anything but trample on sissy boys.
7 He's a kind of sissy , but Sinclair is a killer-andthen some.
8 Hemen come from our breed and only a sissy refuses to obey.
9 I don't want to be a sissy , but I'm not very strong.
10 And I didn't want to hear any sissy crying about hard work, either.
11 And I figure we need something stronger than this sissy wine Ric ordered.
12 Personally, I don't think they're sissy pajamas, I just think they were happy.
13 A sissy would not have survived the criticism he has faced.
14 It seems like sissy stuff to use them, but they help.
15 But she was a sissy , and I could not follow suit.
16 What we're doing here is removing the sissy bar from the fender struts.
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