namby-pamby
Example Sentences
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She gives every impression she might regard that nickname as a bit wishy-washy, a bit namby-pamby.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025
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
Sure, some of the language is just namby-pamby massaging of the message.
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2013
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
