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
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
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
