milquetoast

milquetoast englanniksi

1. Milquetoast

1. Meek, timid; lacking character or effectiveness.

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2. (quote-hansard)

3. (quote-book)

4. (quote-web) Playing an Irritated Prostitute Can Save this Limp Melodrama|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416044058/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/eva-review-benoit-jacquot-isabelle-huppert-1201930011/|archivedate=16 April 2019|work=IndieWire|date=18 February 2018|passage=Moreover, "(2018 film)|Eva" boasts little style beyond what its biggest star is able to bring to the table. Viewers hoping for more of the milquetoast elegance that Jacquot|Benoît Jacquot previously brought to the likes of "(w)" and "of a Chambermaid (2015 film)|Diary of a Chambermaid" will be disappointed.

5. A person of meek or timid disposition; a person who lacks character or effectiveness.

6. (quote-journal)

7. (quote-book)|year=1990|page=1400|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ID4E3Lm8TsgC&pg=PA1400|isbn=978-0-8386-3412-7|passage=Of the thirteen films he &91;(w)&93; made independently, the most noteworthy was and Woolly|WILD AND WOOLLY (1917), a melodramatic story about an Eastern milquetoast who becomes a frontier hero.

8. (quote-book)&93; was no woman to be married to a milquetoast, and Luce|Henry Robinson Luce, cofounder and colorful, forceful honcho of the nascent ''Time'' empire, was anything but that.