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Meanings of namby-pamby in English

Weak in willpower, courage or vitality.

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Usage of namby-pamby in English
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Piety is not a namby-pamby sentiment; it is a great intellectual force.
The Warriors
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This wasn't some namby-pamby peacenikery; it was a critical part of winning.
A journey: my political life
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Tombs in his sing-song namby-pamby University voice was concerned to get information.
Mr. Standfast
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By the bye, what a little namby-pamby thing that Mabel Ainsley is.
Isabel Leicester / A Romance by Maude Alma
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Some of them say I will have a weak, namby-pamby Sunday-school sheet.
In His Steps
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Grant was no namby-pamby fool, he was a man-allover-roundedand complete.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885)
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The writer said the whole vehicle was too subtle, too namby-pamby.
The new yorker
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And the exams are unlikely to be namby-pamby multiple-choice efforts either.
The Irish Times
9
No soul is finally held by the indefinite, or the namby-pamby.
The Warriors
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And they were not namby-pamby oaths, or mere expressions of indecency.
The Sea-Wolf
11
No, I am not namby-pamby, and this is not empty talk.
All for a Scrap of Paper: A Romance of the Present War
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It's good to see farmers and local authorities ignoring that namby-pamby noxious weeds legislation.
The Irish Times
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The goody-goody philosophy of the namby-pamby takes an extreme and unreal view of life.
Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography
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Education has taken all the namby-pamby nonsense out of me.
The Conflict
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He's a good-looking kid in his namby-pamby Harvard way, too.
Youth Challenges
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This fellow Christ is a bit namby-pamby for my taste.
Jitterbug Perfume