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

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

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