Meaning of milquetoastery | Babel Free

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The quality of being milquetoast.

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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.”

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