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
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
To them, pitch-limits for starters was a namby-pamby notion.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 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
