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Namby pamby logo #10101) Feeble 2) Ineffectual 3) Insipid 4) Insipid and sentimental 5) Insipid and sentimental one 6) Lacking gumption 7) Spineless 8) Total wuss 9) Weak 10) Weak-willed 11) Weakly sentimental 12) Wimpish
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Namby-pamby

Namby-pamby logo #10101) English phrase 2) Satirical work
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Namby Pamby

Namby Pamby logo #21000 Namby Pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse. It originates from Namby Pamby (1725) by Henry Carey. Carey wrote his poem as a satire of Ambrose Philips and published it in his Poems on Several Occasions. Its first publication was Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address`d to A----- P----, where the A-- ....
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Namby-pamby

Namby-pamby logo #21002• (n.) Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. • (a.) Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. • (n.) Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. • (a.) Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid.
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Namby-pamby

Namby-pamby logo #20972Nam'by-pam`by noun [ From Ambrose Phillips , in ridicule of the extreme simplicity of some of his verses.] Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.
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namby-pamby

namby-pamby logo #20400[adj] - weak in willpower 2. [n] - an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental
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namby-pamby

namby-pamby logo #20974gutless adjective weak in willpower, courage or vitality
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