Meaning of milquetoastery | Babel Free
Examples
“Why did Leonard's tale move⟳ Don so? I think⟳ the milquetoastery of Leonard is crucial here. Don has long assumed that his dark past, his family, his sins, account for his vast hunger for love⟳.”
“In "Capital in the Twenty-first Century," Piketty made a policy proposal that, he cautioned, was probably "utopian": a global tax on wealth topping out at around two per cent. Half a dozen years later, it seems almost like⟳ milquetoastery.”
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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