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- n. Plural form of milksop.
Examples
“At a certain green age young gentlemen are sometimes afraid of being called milksops, and Philip's associates had not always been the most select, such as these historians would have chosen for him, or whom at a later, period he would have chosen for himself.”
“Even if the Democrats talk a good game about their agenda, they turn into dithering milksops once they're in power.”
“The Punch and the NT are milksops of the online community, emasculated by their parent companies so that their only possible goal is to block a real HuffPo clone from destroying their hosts.”
“Hagel and the other mollycoddled milksops on the far radical left would rather spend money on college degrees on lifers in prison, butterfly museums, health care for criminal illegals, farm subsidies to millionaire sugar/tobacco farmers and all the wastefull 1325 federal programs that are so outdated, as to be CRIMINAL!”
“And they were no poules mouill-es, no milksops, those three lads.”
“All the loud mouths, the obstructionists, the Obama-haters, the cowards who have cut and run from the American people and who have thrown in with the corporate carnivores are just wimpering, shivering milksops.”
“Ha ha, let the poor little Labour milksops have their bit of fun while they can, I say.”
“But as to your milksops, your dough-baked lovers, who stay at home and strut among the women, when glory is to be gained in the martial field; I despise them with all my heart.”
“I did not dream of the death of Quin, as some milksops, perhaps, would have done; indeed, I have never had any of that foolish remorse consequent upon any of my affairs of honour: always considering, from the first, that where a gentleman risks his own life in manly combat, he is a fool to be ashamed because he wins.”
“If she is considered by the men within the group it wil only be as a ‘prop’ for these milksops to deny their secret fear of females by ‘exerting their power’ over her.”
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Ambidextrous words
Words with letters a-m in the left half and n-z in the right half (suggested by oroboros on ambidextrous).
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