Thesaurus / namby pamby
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synonyms for namby pamby
- bland
- distasteful
- flat
- flavorless
- innocuous
- jejune
- mild
- namby-pamby
- stale
- unappetizing
- unpalatable
- unsavory
- vapid
- watered-down
- waterish
- watery
- savorless
- bland
- distasteful
- flat
- flavorless
- innocuous
- jejune
- mild
- namby-pamby
- stale
- unappetizing
- unpalatable
- unsavory
- vapid
- washy
- watered-down
- watery
- savorless
- deserter
- quitter
- yellow
- wimp
- sissy
- namby-pamby
- caitiff
- baby
- pantywaist
- weakling
- chicken
- pansy
- wuss
- jellyfish
- chicken heart
- chicken liver
- cry-baby
- fraidy-cat
- lily liver
- scaredy cat
- wussy
- yellow belly
- momma's boy
- milksop
- quitter
- coward
- yellow
- wimp
- sissy
- caitiff
- baby
- chicken
- weakling
- pantywaist
- wuss
- jellyfish
- chicken heart
- chicken liver
- cry-baby
- fraidy-cat
- lily liver
- scaredy cat
- wussy
- yellow belly
- momma's boy
- milksop
- coward
- wimp
- namby-pamby
- baby
- chicken
- weakling
- pansy
- wuss
- cry-baby
- fraidy-cat
- scaredy cat
- wussy
- momma's boy
- milksop
- pushover
- coward
- wimp
- crybaby
- namby-pamby
- baby
- pantywaist
- chicken
- cream puff
- cuckold
- pansy
- daisy
- wuss
- jellyfish
- yellow belly
- momma's boy
- coward
- crybaby
- pushover
- milksop
- caitiff
- loser
- schlemiel
- sissy
- namby-pamby
- baby
- chicken
- puppy
- pantywaist
- cream puff
- pansy
- daisy
- featherweight
- wuss
- jellyfish
- chicken heart
- chicken liver
- fraidy-cat
- lily liver
- scaredy-cat
- wussy
- yellow belly
- momma's boy
- Milquetoast
- baby
- crybaby
- lightweight
- mollycoddle
- namby-pamby
- sissy
- big baby
- gutless wonder
- pansy
- softy
- mother's darling
- teacher's pet
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How to use namby pamby in a sentence
Why did you make us walk in front, namby-pamby so, Papa dear?
DOROTHY'S TRAVELSEVELYN RAYMONDAt this point, Sam Weller, who had had his eyes fixed hitherto on Mr. Namby's shining beaver, interfered.
THE PICKWICK PAPERSCHARLES DICKENSWas this the cousin whom she had considered a sort of namby-pamby, goody-goody girl who would be easily controlled?
FRIENDSHIP AND FOLLYMARIA LOUISE POOLNeither Boers or natives understand our namby-pamby way of playing at government; they put it down to fear.
THE LAST BOER WARH. RIDER HAGGARDGet out o my way, the pair o you, and let me blow out o this namby-pamby, Sunday-school dump!
CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLANDIts composition is in the namby-pamby taste of Pleyels time, and will never suit the taste of the present day.
LOUIS SPOHR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHYLOUIS SPOHRThe goody-goody philosophy of the namby-pamby takes an extreme and unreal view of life.
MARSE HENRY (VOL. 2)HENRY WATTERSONIn the youthful Christ the painter has striven after something more "ideal," and has produced a somewhat namby-pamby face.
A POPULAR HANDBOOK TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY, VOLUME I, FOREIGN SCHOOLSVARIOUSThe old man has feeling left in him; and the mother doats upon her namby-pamby boy.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 59, NO. 368, JUNE 1846VARIOUSAnother performer was Mrs. Namby, who entertained Mr. Pickwick with solos on a square piano while breakfast was being prepared.
CHARLES DICKENS AND MUSICJAMES T. LIGHTWOOD