namby-pamby
adjective
without firm methods or policy; weak or indecisive.
namby-pambyism
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a word derived from
namby-pamby.
Example Sentences
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They attach no meaning to life-long tenderness but life-long namby-pambyism, something excusable in youth and “courting,” but savoring strongly of weakness of character after the honeymoon has waned.
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
Regard for such exceptional persons has created a namby-pambyism in literature which would banish these topics—the greatest and holiest in which human sympathy can be enlisted—to the domains of science.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
