milquetoasteryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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milquetoastery (uncountable)

1. The quality of being milquetoast.

   Synonym: milquetoastness

   • 2015 May 18, Julia Turner, “Mad Men season 7 reviewed: Why did Don stop running?”, in Slate‎, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-07:

     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.

   • 2020 March 2, Idrees Kahloon, “Thomas Piketty Goes Global”, in The New Yorker‎, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-27:

     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.