milksop

[ UK /mˈɪlksəp/ ]
NOUN
  1. a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
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How To Use milksop In A Sentence

  • Any chance they have to portray a male opponent as a milksop, they do it.
  • Mother’s darlings are but milksop heroes. 
  • You let your milksop of a brother handle the interrogation?
  • And Giles had always thought it rather far-fetched that a milksop like Desmond would have committed cold-blooded murder. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
  • Suckling is a nickname applied to a helpless person; cf. Littlechild and "milksop," which still exists, though rare, in the forms Milsopp and Mellsop. The Romance of Names
  • Since there are few lawyers without sin it will be more and more difficult, as a result of congressional hearings, to appoint anyone but a moronic milksop.
  • My young companions, who, as I have observed, had only preceded me six months in the service, were already grown old in depravity; they laughed at my squeamishness, called me, "milksop" and Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
  • Mother’s darlings are but milksop heroes. 
  • Riley called him "milksop," and "sap-head"; words which seemed to the dull intellect of King Pewee exceedingly witty. The Hoosier School-boy
  • One way of ensuring that didn't happen was to put God – not some milksop supreme being but a proper, stormy God – back into buildings. British architecture: Victorian and Edwardian
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