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Recent Examples of milquetoast
The elections demonstrated the voters’ persistent support for political movements embracing right-wing populism on issues related to immigration, crime and social issues while abandoning milquetoast traditional center-right parties for failing to bring meaningful change.
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Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 21 July 2024
No one wants to be trapped in that moribund milquetoast normie Christianity.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
One day, a milquetoast accountant (Jason Bateman) discovers that Diane has hacked his information, which leads to a crazy cross-country trip in which the two characters are reluctantly stuck together.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
Rising conservative activists disdained this approach as both milquetoast and politically ineffective.
—Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made By History, TIME, 10 June 2024
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Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 21 July 2024
No one wants to be trapped in that moribund milquetoast normie Christianity.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
One day, a milquetoast accountant (Jason Bateman) discovers that Diane has hacked his information, which leads to a crazy cross-country trip in which the two characters are reluctantly stuck together.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
Rising conservative activists disdained this approach as both milquetoast and politically ineffective.
—Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made By History, TIME, 10 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for milquetoast
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William quickly places Ian under arrest for assaulting an officer, as Rachel calls him a coward.Lincee Ray, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) Bob Hope didn’t so much play characters as variations on the Bob Hope persona, a wisecracking coward with a tendency to get in way over his head then make matters worse for himself.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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Of the two sisters in the yellow house, Paula is a much gentler girl, a wuss, a baby, the biggest chicken—that’s how her sister thinks of her—and Rhonda is the boss.Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
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Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.New York Times, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
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At the film’s Cipriani afterparty, the New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan compared the Babygirl effect to what Challengers did for Josh O’Connor, who’d previously played nice guys and nebbishes.Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2024
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Is the algorithm going to make the out-of-shape nebbish standup an endangered species?Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
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Research from 2014 showed that bedbugs were capable of spreading to mice the pathogen that causes Chagas disease.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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Tests conducted after the outbreak found that an amino acid in the flour caused liver damage in mice.Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Milquetoast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milquetoast. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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