Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being milquetoast.
The girls thought that my milquetoastness was highly amusing and began to refer to me as 'Annie Oakley' for a while.
2019, Ricky Dale, Cloudburst, Rothersthorpe, West Northamptonshire: Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 1772 more examples
The selection of the towering Spurs, rivaled in milquetoastness only by 1987's "athletes who care," makes one wonder if a Jack McKeon, Dick Vermeil "rise of the old coaches" spread was rejected for generating too much excitement.
2003 December 8, Josh Levin, “A New I Do”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2024Additionally, discrimination is forbidden on the basis of race, ethnicity, alien origin, religion (your own or that of those who worship the ancient pantheon of which you are a part), sexual orientation, or milquetoastness of secret identity.
2005, Matthew David Brozik, Jacob Sager Weinstein, The Government Manual for New Superheroes, Kansas City, M.O.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 92Synonyms: milquetoastery
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being milquetoast.
Origin
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milquetoastness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milquetoastness
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