milquetoast
Speech parts
1. milquetoast - Noun
2. milquetoast - Adjective
Meaning
a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
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After decades of working in other Thai restaurants, in early 2020, Ramphung and her husband opened Thailand Tawan on Main Street in Heber, adding a spicy shot of diversity to a community featuring mostly fast-food options and milquetoast diner fare.
While we don’t want robot overlords, neither do we want milquetoast robot drivers.
It’s almost like the states that said YOLo and reopened after a milquetoast response to begin with have doomed the rest of the country to endure this longer than we should have needed to.
Manic Pixie Dream Girls aren’t people, they’re plot devices; they’re supposed to make the milquetoast protagonist more interesting because… well, because.
“That false neutral thing is killing us and it makes for really tepid, milquetoast ass prose and annoying characters.
The extremely rich Ochs-Sulzberger family has been passing control of the each new generation of milquetoast dullards since 1896; the paper even has to give the occasional writing gig to this or that Sulzberger moron on a rumspringa from pure parasitism.