namby-pamby
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The tackle was brilliant and set the tone for a proper game of football and not this namby-pamby interpretation of what modernists think the game should be.
From BBC ● May 8, 2022
“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
I won’t be namby-pamby about it and say I don’t miss all that money.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2015
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 L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
