Meaning of milquetoastedly | Babel Free
Examples
“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?””
“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.”
“Don’t let⟳ yourself be milquetoastedly intimidated by sober equations, credentials, and prizes.”
“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.””
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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