namby-pamby

How To Use namby-pamby In A Sentence

• I may not be popular, but well, the last man to hold this office was a cheerful tolerant namby-pamby who got himself eaten on school property.
• I think as a prosecutor everyone thought I was a namby-pamby, and therefore much more defense-oriented and minded.
• I can't stand namby-pamby wimps; it's my working-class background.
• I've come to the (half-joking?) conclusion that many of the journal reviews are so vague and namby-pamby that maybe they should resort to the movie-review star system. A conspiracy theory of reviewing
• None of this namby-pamby flopping about for our John; no, if a stout English player is going to cheat, he'll do it in manly fashion because ‘it's a man's game.’
• I'd prefer a firm, ‘no, we are not going to be part of this’ to a namby-pamby policy of wait and see.
• But I sense Ann would not have much sympathy for my namby-pamby indulgences.
• Really idle I mean, none of your namby-pamby idleness.
• It would at least spare us a repeat of their namby-pamby hostilities.
• There was a maudlin, missish, namby-pamby sentimentality about them which disgusted her. The Last Chronicle of Barset