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
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
