noun

• A person who is indecisive and lacks courage.

  More example sentences

  • ‘you could have respect for a man who fought for you, but none for this milksop, who backed away’
  • ‘Since there are few lawyers without sin it will be more and more difficult, as a result of congressional hearings, to appoint anyone but a moronic milksop.’
  • ‘Any chance they have to portray a male opponent as a milksop, they do it.’
  • ‘You let your milksop of a brother handle the interrogation?’
  • ‘You are a milksop; your heart is full of guilt for this.’
  • ‘He didn't want to be such a milksop, but he hoped it wouldn't happen again.’

  Synonyms

  namby-pamby, coward, weakling, milquetoast

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