namby-pamby
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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
If what you're looking for is comfort, that's a pretty awful, namby-pamby life.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2021
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
Chlorinated city water was for namby-pambies, she said.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Shall we disregard the order, and do as we please, or be namby-pambies and submit to the outrage?
From Mary Louise by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
