"milquetoastedly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From milquetoasted + -ly.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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?”",
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        {
          "ref": "1984 August 26, James Tallon, “Confessions of a Mexican food addict”, in Arizona (The Arizona Republic), Phoenix, Ariz., page 17, column 1",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "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",
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        {
          "ref": "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., page 278",
          "text": "Don’t let yourself be milquetoastedly intimidated by sober equations, credentials, and prizes.",
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        {
          "ref": "2024 January 1, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, “Elon Musk Defends MAGA After Green Day’s Slap On New Year’s Eve Broadcast”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 2024-01-01",
          "text": "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.”",
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        "In a milquetoasted manner."
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        "(rare) In a milquetoasted manner."
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  "etymology_text": "From milquetoasted + -ly.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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?”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1984 August 26, James Tallon, “Confessions of a Mexican food addict”, in Arizona (The Arizona Republic), Phoenix, Ariz., page 17, column 1",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "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",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "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., page 278",
          "text": "Don’t let yourself be milquetoastedly intimidated by sober equations, credentials, and prizes.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2024 January 1, Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, “Elon Musk Defends MAGA After Green Day’s Slap On New Year’s Eve Broadcast”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 2024-01-01",
          "text": "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.”",
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        "(rare) In a milquetoasted manner."
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