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milk-and-water
[ milk-uhn-waw-ter, -wot-er ]
adjective
- ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.
milk-and-water
adjective
- milk and water when postpositive weak, feeble, or insipid
Example Sentences
A century later, Theodore Roosevelt, who detested “milk-and-water cosmopolitanism,†saw virtue emerging from struggles between the “Anglo-Saxon†race and what his friend and soulmate Rudyard Kipling called “lesser breeds without the law.â€
Writing in the Guardian in May she said people did not join Labour to "see their leader sounding like a milk-and-water version of Nigel Farage" or "getting down in the gutter with Nigel Farage".
Anyway it seems to me more accurate about motherhood than the old bloodless milk-and-water Virgins of art history.
Usually these voluntaries were real milk-and-water affairs," he recalled, "but one day the organist did something really wild, which was thrilling.
If that girl does not know what it is to have a high-spirited young fellow like yourself for a lover, without making him a poor, tame, milk-and-water poodle, why then she ought to make herself always as scarce as she is at this moment.
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