namby-pamby

Example Sentences

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She gives every impression she might regard that nickname as a bit wishy-washy, a bit namby-pamby.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

“We’ve got nothing to lose and no more of this vanilla milquetoast namby-pamby … stuff that’s been going on.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2022

Appeals for unity sometimes come off as namby-pamby.

From Washington Times • Nov. 7, 2018

“He had no idea how deeply I would resent being made to utter namby-pamby Plante-speak like a dummy on his knee,” she wrote in The Guardian.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2017

You don’t do infrared reconnaissance and maintain a civilian arsenal in some namby-pamby tree house.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman