Definition of "namby-pamby" []

• Insipid and sentimental. (adjective)
• Lacking vigor or decisiveness; spineless. (adjective)
• One that is insipid, sentimental, or weak. (noun)

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• "BarCap knows what's wrong: a namby-pamby welfare stateLonger hours, harder work, greater discipline and far fewer namby-pamby social benefits."
• "He was not a sickly sentimentalist, a namby-pamby poet, a mincing metre ballad monger, any more than Shakspeare."
• "Look, I have been and continue to be very unhappy with the frequently namby-pamby responses of the Progressive movement to the liars and hypocrites at Faux News, Whirled Nuts Dully, and the Repugnantcons in general."