"marshmallowy" meaning in English

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        "Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow."
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow.",
        "Soft and fluffy."
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          "ref": "2002, Elizabeth Kendall, The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s, Cooper Square Press, page 187",
          "text": "“It changed Gable from a heavy to a comedian in It Happened One Night. It changed Jean Arthur from a marshmallowy ingenue to a hard-boiled wise- cracker in The Whole Town's Talking.”",
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          "ref": "2011, Andre De Toth, Fragments, Faber & Faber, page 18",
          "text": "I didn't want a self-pitying, poor Miss Pitiful Pearl, a marshmallowy wilted flower, or a nagging bitch for the wife. I wanted somebody with inborn dignity and pride, with the strength of understanding, a real human being. Not only a good actress.",
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          "text": "Percy struck some of the people who worked with him as an ineffective legislator, marshmallowy and yielding in the way of many moderate politicians.",
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        "Tending to be a pushover; overly accommodating."
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        "Vacuous."
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