namby-pamby

Example Sentences

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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

Appeals for unity sometimes come off as namby-pamby.

From Washington Times • Nov. 7, 2018

They were typically bland and namby-pamby and completely noncommittal, in the plausibly deniable dishonest way horoscopes are written.

From Washington Post • May 29, 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