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Namby-pamby   Listen
noun
Namby-pamby  n.  Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Namby-pamby" Quotes from Famous Books



... hastily. "Now, look here; you go on a different tack. Take a glass of ale like a man or a couple o' glasses; smoke a cigarette or a pipe. Be like other young men. Cut a dash, and don't be a namby-pamby. After you're married you can be as miserable ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs

... working men starving and ill-clad, for in that way their eyes will be opened. The brute who gets the uttermost farthing out of the toil of his wage-slaves is more a friend to us and our cause than any namby-pamby Socialist, such as the late Dukeling of New Wanley. Socialist indeed! But enough. We have probably heard the last of this parvenu and his loudly trumpeted schemes. No true friend of the ...
— Demos • George Gissing



Words linked to "Namby-pamby" :   spineless, gutless, weakling



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