Usage of "namby-pamby"

Weak in willpower, courage or vitality.

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Examples for "spineless"

Preventing that was indeed more important than love, especially Oscar's spineless variety. 
 Imajica: Complete Edition 

Even Alicia's young son, Wade, seemed to take after Maureen's spineless family. 
 Running scared 

So far you've proven to be as incompetent as you are spineless. 
 Darkness unleashed 

We could not go on with sentimental novels and spineless lyrics forever. 
 Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] 

For faith is not a tame and spineless thing that dares nothing. 
 Sermons on Biblical Characters 

I don't care to hear him called a 'gutless wonder'... by anyone. 
 Flag in Exile 

And as usual, he's half right, half wrong, and all gutless. 
 Summer knight 

A gutless editorial. Mr Trump called for the author to turn themselves in. 
 News.com.au 

But you don't believe him; you're just scared gutless of him. 
 The stand 

You didn't make all this in your twenties by being bird-brained or gutless. 
 Talk of the town 

I'll make him think I'm a wishy-washy moonstruck girl, smitten with him. 
 The Desert of Wheat 

Its views are Liberal-Conservative, and wishy-washy; its principal concern to remain in office. 
 Town Life in Australia 

NYPIRG was a Naderite group, and seen as kind of wishy-washy and bourgeois. 
 The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama 

He's a political rightwinger who makes Boris Johnson look like a wishy-washy liberal. 
 The Guardian 

This is not the time for wishy-washy tones or glaring kitsch. 
 The Guardian 

Uso de namby-pamby em inglês

Piety is not a namby-pamby sentiment; it is a great intellectual force. 
 The Warriors 

This wasn't some namby-pamby peacenikery; it was a critical part of winning. 
 A journey: my political life 

Tombs in his sing-song namby-pamby University voice was concerned to get information. 
 Mr. Standfast 

By the bye, what a little namby-pamby thing that Mabel Ainsley is. 
 Isabel Leicester / A Romance by Maude Alma 

Some of them say I will have a weak, namby-pamby Sunday-school sheet. 
 In His Steps 

Grant was no namby-pamby fool, he was a man-allover-roundedand complete. 
 Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) 

The writer said the whole vehicle was too subtle, too namby-pamby. 
 The new yorker 

And the exams are unlikely to be namby-pamby multiple-choice efforts either. 
 The Irish Times 

No soul is finally held by the indefinite, or the namby-pamby. 
 The Warriors 

And they were not namby-pamby oaths, or mere expressions of indecency. 
 The Sea-Wolf 

No, I am not namby-pamby, and this is not empty talk. 
 All for a Scrap of Paper: A Romance of the Present War 

It's good to see farmers and local authorities ignoring that namby-pamby noxious weeds legislation. 
 The Irish Times 

The goody-goody philosophy of the namby-pamby takes an extreme and unreal view of life. 
 Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography 

Education has taken all the namby-pamby nonsense out of me. 
 The Conflict 

He's a good-looking kid in his namby-pamby Harvard way, too. 
 Youth Challenges 

This fellow Christ is a bit namby-pamby for my taste. 
 Jitterbug Perfume 

Significados de namby-pamby em inglês