Adjective : namby-pamby handling of juvenile offenders. ,namby-pamby writing. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : written by and for namby-pambies. ,the harmless namby-pamby of a birthday card. From Dictionary.com.
But her namby-pamby vagueness pisses off EVERYBODY. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Booed At Iowa Forum] Reference
"Of course," he repeated using his namby-pamby voice. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Dwarf] Reference
And how namby-pamby so many of us are about our desires!. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Susan Corso: Steve Pavlina: Personal Development for Smart People] Reference
(Soundbite of music) BATES: This was not namby-pamby piano. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius of Fats Waller] Reference
KING: Every time we have you on, it's this namby-pamby thing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2001] Reference
But the women of '52 and' 53 were not of the namby-pamby sort. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a Pioneer] Reference
By the bye, what a little namby-pamby thing that Mabel Ainsley is. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
Those namby-pamby, self-described "progressives" in the Democratic. From Wordnik.com. [The Democrats' Health 'Reform' Bill: Kill It Before It Comes to Life!] Reference
(Soundbite of music) GRIGSBY BATES: This was not namby-pamby piano. From Wordnik.com. [Fats Waller's Playful Jazz Piano Legacy] Reference
That way lies namby-pamby, always worrying about who not to offend. From Wordnik.com. [Rove's Diary: Just Try to Stop Me, Coppers!] Reference
That's the honourable thing to do, not namby-pamby to the PC idiots. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
And that's not namby-pamby positive thinking; it's being intelligent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2003] Reference
KERLIKOWSKE: This isn't some social service, namby-pamby kind of talk. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2006] Reference
In our next segment, we will try to get her to stop being namby-pamby. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: U.S. and China Face off Over Fate of U.S. Spy Plane's Crew - April 2, 2001] Reference
KING: Do you want them -- you don't want then to be namby-pamby though?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2002] Reference
Ruth Fielding was not namby-pamby, although she was far from quarrelsome. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
I can't just write namby-pamby lyrics, you know, just the run of the mill. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2005] Reference
I think you can't be too namby-pamby and keep a big organization together. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Clark Foreman, November 16, 1974. Interview B-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
What kind of namby-pamby pus-wad says it'll take til 2013 to win that war?. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Promises Victory In Iraq by 2013] Reference
"Long march through the culture" just sounds so namby-pamby and New Labouresque. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Even the NRA turned all namby-pamby on me on this one, failing to oppose the ban. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Hench: One of the Worst Days of Cheney's Life] Reference
Greider will probably take his share of flak for sounding like a defeatist namby-pamby. From Wordnik.com. [Midterm Roundup] Reference
He's known in some circles as kind of a liberal, namby-pamby guy, when he was a Harvard. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2008] Reference
"Any blind bat could see that you wanted to be nasty, in spite of your namby-pamby airs.". From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
If he threatened, then why is he charged with the namby-pamby harassment stalking charges?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2009] Reference
Why, in MY DAY we didn't have these namby-pamby Europeans fawning all over our politicians. From Wordnik.com. [Polls: Europe Hearts Obama] Reference
"They've all been replaced by these mealy-mouthed, namby-pamby, scared-shitless executives.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hollywood Beast Roars] Reference
Frankly, I'm a little weary of the namby-pamby "let's not rock the boat" attitude of Muslims. From Wordnik.com. [Sabria Jawhar: Passive European Muslims Partially To Blame for Swiss Minaret Ban] Reference
While namby-pamby actions suit the fool humans, it is most inappropriate for the demonic race. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
They were made use of to show him up as a failure, a good-for-nothing, a namby-pamby, a nobody. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Man on the Bench]
I can't bear it that she believes my son is a bully because her namby-pamby son wanted attention and cried foul. From Wordnik.com. [My son, the violent homosexual] Reference
Though famous for her sweet-faced roles opposite cowboys, she once complained, "I ... hate namby-pamby heroines.". From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
'T is the loves filial and paternal, and friendship, better than all the loves the rhymesters hang with their namby-pamby. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
But girls prefer to be martyrs and go about 'letting concealment prey upon their damask cheeks' and all that namby-pamby nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
You've got to respect Summers's guts in moving past the namby-pamby neutrality of most college presidents and actually saying something. From Wordnik.com. [A Question Of Anti-Semitism] Reference
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