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namby-pamby

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synonyms for namby-pamby

On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to namby-pamby, such as: baby, chicken, coward, jellyfish, milksop, and pantywaist.

How to use namby-pamby in a sentence

Boring teams, lousy quarterbacks, and namby-pamby rules are making the National Football League unwatchable.
Buzz Bissinger on the NFL’s No Good, Very Bad Season | Buzz Bissinger | January 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Why did you make us walk in front, namby-pamby so, Papa dear?
Dorothy's Travels | Evelyn Raymond
Was this the cousin whom she had considered a sort of namby-pamby, goody-goody girl who would be easily controlled?
Friendship and Folly | Maria Louise Pool

Neither Boers or natives understand our namby-pamby way of playing at government; they put it down to fear.
The Last Boer War | H. Rider Haggard
Get out o my way, the pair o you, and let me blow out o this namby-pamby, Sunday-school dump!
Cursed | George Allan England
Its composition is in the namby-pamby taste of Pleyels time, and will never suit the taste of the present day.
Louis Spohr's Autobiography | Louis Spohr

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