Pantywaist in a sentence as a noun

And my dad was pantywaist engineer working in the office.

It was apparently acceptable to call someone a "pantywaist", a comedic word I grant you, but maybe somewhat too sexist.

And if a nation drifts into oligopoly and a weak well-managed "democracy lite" the pantywaist Hobbesians will defend that situation by saying "but but but...

Pantywaist definitions

noun

a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive

See also: sissy pansy milksop Milquetoast