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How to pronounce milksop in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms milquetoast, pansy, pantywaist, sissy
Type of coward

Examples of milksop

milksop
Who doesn't want to cheer for the seemingly milksop honor student who stands up to the schoolyard bullies?
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But openly sob mid-meeting over some unfavorable feedback and you're likely to get labeled a mewling milksop.
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Some workers even pretend not to like their boss in front of their work colleagues in case they are thought of as a milksop, in their mind.
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Cast against type, Aaron Eckhart plays Bill as a cringing milksop, ample gut waterfalling over his waistband, lank hair straggling lifelessly across his brow.
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  • Sissy: a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
  • A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; A piece of bread sopped in milk
  • 1. effeminate man; coward; weakling. 2. spiritless, dull, boring person; fuddy-duddy.