milksop

• "But I could not in all conscience consent to your marrying such a milksop, Isabella It was better to make me your mistress," she said. —  Mary Balogh - The Secret Pearl
• That they would call him a milksop, a molly-coddle, and all kinds of horrid names, he knew, and he had tried manfully to bear-up under persecution. —  St. Winifred's, or The World of School
• We don't care to associate with a milksop, who allows himself to be ordered around by women and children Fortunately Fred was too drowsy to pay heed to what was being said; in fact he was very sleepy, and was anxious to go to bed. —  The Telegraph Boy
• You are expected to drink, and the man who declines to do so is looked upon as a milksop. —  The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
• The air of refinement about his face showed him to be a suitable person for teasing Riley called him "milksop," and "sap-head"; words which seemed to the dull intellect of King Pewee exceedingly witty. —  The Hoosier School-boy

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context