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Recent Examples of milquetoast
The always-bold, always-hyper Daffy is incorrigibly incompetent, while shy milquetoast Porky is too busy nursing a crush on beautiful gum-flavor scientist Petunia Pig (voiced by Candi Milo) to ever really accomplish much.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Ian McEwan explored this gray territory in his novel Machines Like Me, where his milquetoast protagonist smilingly tolerates his robot's romantic overtures toward his love interest—until the threat of displacement becomes all too real.
—Silvia Park, TIME, 10 Mar. 2025
Maye entered the Rams game with a milquetoast 84.1 career passer rating but an astounding 9.3 yards per run.
—Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 17 Nov. 2024
What if Cena had never been able to break away from his milquetoast debut?
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 July 2024
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Ian McEwan explored this gray territory in his novel Machines Like Me, where his milquetoast protagonist smilingly tolerates his robot's romantic overtures toward his love interest—until the threat of displacement becomes all too real.
—Silvia Park, TIME, 10 Mar. 2025
Maye entered the Rams game with a milquetoast 84.1 career passer rating but an astounding 9.3 yards per run.
—Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 17 Nov. 2024
What if Cena had never been able to break away from his milquetoast debut?
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for milquetoast
Noun
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With rising apprehension, the Cabinet kept deliberating for a couple of days while Sumner did his best to shut down jingoistic rhetoric in the Senate from politicians who demanded that Lincoln not be a coward in the face of Great Britain.—
Zaakir Tameez
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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Because these cowards fear being doxed for their inhumane and unconscionable actions.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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To find out whether bacteria would still collect PFAS chemicals inside a larger organism, the team used mice raised to lack a microbiome of their own and colonized the animals’ gut with several human microbiome bacteria that were shown to absorb PFAS.—
Nora Bradford,
Scientific American,
4 July 2025
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An inspector followed up on the complaint and found mice droppings in aisles 14-17, product that was chewed through and a live mouse, Turner said.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
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“Milquetoast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milquetoast. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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