milquetoastedly

English

Etymology

From milquetoasted +‎ -ly.

Adverb

milquetoastedly (comparative more milquetoastedly, superlative most milquetoastedly)

1. (rare) In a milquetoasted manner.
   • 1972 May 13, Alvin M., “[Voice of the People] Disband the Voice”, in Franklin D. Schurz Jr., editor, The South Bend Tribune, volume C, number 66, South Bend, Ind., page 6, column 8:

     Last evening, at supper, my wife looked at me menacingly and said, “What’s the matter, what wrong with my cooking?” all I could do was to look at her and milquetoastedly say: “Something is missing in my soup, Devey. You always cook it supremely when you are all steamed up. Didn’t you read the Voice of the People today?”

   • 1984 August 26, James Tallon, “Confessions of a Mexican food addict”, in Arizona (The Arizona Republic), Phoenix, Ariz., page 17, column 1:

     A bottle of commercially-prepared hot sauce at the ready suggested you add the gusto yourself. Milquetoastedly, I shook on a teaspoonful, tasted, then added more.

   • 1989 December 10, Jonathan Yardley, “‘Mister Books’ ads Milquetoast-edly pull their punches”, in The Morning Call, number 35,494, Allentown, Pa.: The Morning Call, Inc., →ISSN, page F8
   • 2009, Pablo Triana, “An Unhealthy Yearning for Precision”, in Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 278:

     Don’t let yourself be milquetoastedly intimidated by sober equations, credentials, and prizes.

   • 2024 January 1, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, “Elon Musk Defends MAGA After Green Day’s Slap On New Year’s Eve Broadcast”, in Forbes‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-01-01:

     Elon Musk accused the band [Green Day] of going "from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it" after [Billie Joe] Amstrong swapped a line in the song “American Idiot,” changing it from "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda" to "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda.”