milksop

as in weakling

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Recent Examples of milksop Julia’s equally posh BFF Jane (Emily Newsome) feels quite the same about her milksop of a hubby, Willy (Kevin Clarke). Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024 Jane Eyre is the milksop sibling to Villette's Lucy Snowe, the introvert's introvert: brainy, passionate, and dark. The Week, 23 May 2022
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Noun
  • The fact these losers want to jail Andrew and Tristan Tate for preaching their version of traditional masculinity highlights the fact that these fascist feminists are fragile weaklings incapable of defending their position in the free marketplace of ideas.
    David Catanese, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
  • In Europe the obvious weaklings are Lancia, Alfa Romeo, and DS.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Teach, who carries a gun, is a wuss about the rain.
    New York Times, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • But the character, in Groening’s view, turned out to be a wimp.
    Darryn King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The hard labor of making Wabanaki baskets Wabanaki basket-making isn’t for wimps.
    Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024

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“Milksop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milksop. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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