milquetoastedly

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1. rareIn a milquetoasted manner.

   Don’t let yourself be milquetoastedly intimidated by sober equations, credentials, and prizes.

   2009, Pablo Triana, “An Unhealthy Yearning for Precision”, in Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 278

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   Last evening, at supper, my wife looked at me menacingly and said, “What’s the matter, what wrong with my cooking?” all I could do was to look at her and milquetoastedly say: “Something is missing in my soup, Devey. You always cook it supremely when you are all steamed up. Didn’t you read the Voice of the People today?”

   1972 May 13, Alvin M., “[Voice of the People] Disband the Voice”, in Franklin D. Schurz Jr., editor, The South Bend Tribune, volume C, number 66, South Bend, Ind., page 6, column 8

   A bottle of commercially-prepared hot sauce at the ready suggested you add the gusto yourself. Milquetoastedly, I shook on a teaspoonful, tasted, then added more.

   1984 August 26, James Tallon, “Confessions of a Mexican food addict”, in Arizona (The Arizona Republic), Phoenix, Ariz., page 17, column 1

   Elon Musk accused the band [Green Day] of going "from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it" after [Billie Joe] Amstrong swapped a line in the song “American Idiot,” changing it from "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda" to "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda.”

   2024 January 1, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, “Elon Musk Defends MAGA After Green Day’s Slap On New Year’s Eve Broadcast”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2024