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meek ,timid
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Andy wins with an array of Dr. Seussian sweat-capes, and cute but milquetoasty Christopher is aufed for a cheap-looking mini-collection that misses the mark.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Empire State of Meh Una LaMarche 2010
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Yes, better to be circumspect and all milquetoasty.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama Accused of Attempted Murder? 2010
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Andy wins with an array of Dr. Seussian sweat-capes, and cute but milquetoasty Christopher is aufed for a cheap-looking mini-collection that misses the mark.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Empire State of Meh Una LaMarche 2010
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Andy wins with an array of Dr. Seussian sweat-capes, and cute but milquetoasty Christopher is aufed for a cheap-looking mini-collection that misses the mark.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Empire State of Meh Una LaMarche 2010
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Andy wins with an array of Dr. Seussian sweat-capes, and cute but milquetoasty Christopher is aufed for a cheap-looking mini-collection that misses the mark.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Empire State of Meh Una LaMarche 2010
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December 30th, 2008 at 6: 28 pm yes, JJ did good, but sort of milquetoasty.
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Yes, better to be circumspect and all milquetoasty.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama Accused of Attempted Murder? 2010
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If Obama's too milquetoasty to handle this task, people in the blogosphere should do it for him.
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Except that Bill Ayers conveys nothing of the ramrod toughness of the fascist right that Gramm conveyed, but, rather, a milquetoasty soft-focus optimism based on an illusion of our government operating as a perfect democracy that gets its direction from the street, rather than from those we elect to make good appointments and to represent us for us in this highly imperfect union, sort of.
Bill Ayers on Arne Duncan: "the smart choice, the unity choice" Jim Horn 2009
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Except that Bill Ayers conveys nothing of the ramrod toughness of the fascist right that Gramm conveyed, but, rather, a milquetoasty soft-focus optimism based on an illusion of our government operating as a perfect democracy that gets its direction from the street, rather than from those we elect to make good appointments and to represent us for us in this highly imperfect union, sort of.
Archive 2009-01-01 Jim Horn 2009
mollusque commented on the word milquetoasty
Some persons who shall be nameless, including myself, coedited a brief-lived (two issues) journal of reviews of science fiction, called Venom. We felt that sf reviewing had become awfully milquetoasty; it was hard to tell the reviews from the blurbs—everything the greatest, the biggest, the best. Venom was to be an antidote ("Mithridates, he died old"). The precondition for becoming a reviewer for Venom was that you do a killer review of one of your own books, to be published in the magazine. Then you could cut loose on somebody else. So that nobody no which were the suicides and which were the murders, you had to use a nom de plume. Mine was Mom de Plume.
--Ursula K. Le Guin, 1997, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places, p. 241
February 21, 2008