namby
3
9.9
- adjective
- /ˈnæm.bi/
- Archaic
:
apocado
- His namby approach to leadership made it difficult for the team to make tough decisions.
- namby-pamby
- namby-pamby pink
- namby-pamby pink professors
Examples
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You don't want to be the kind of namby-pamby team that never has a penalty.
Blog text (19) -
It's a bunch of namby pamby stuff if you ask me.
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Its officials voice all manner of namby-pamby concerns.
Fiction book (1998) -
What is this namby-pamby age restriction?
Blog text (20) -
If he does nothing, people say, "Oh, he's namby-pamby and didn't do anything to fight the beast while he could have."
Blog text (12) -
I don't have time for "namby-pamby" crybabies who want everybody else to carry their baggage.
Blog text (14) -
Now, as you know all too well, our nation's schools have been blighted by the false kindness of namby-pamby, touchy-feely policies for far too long.
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Times have not changed so much that the views, predilections, and economic motivations of many among the financial and power elites here and abroad have lost their appetite for this purer, less namby-pamby form of capitalism.
Blog text (27) -
They criticized the changes as namby-pamby efforts that lacked real impact.
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She found his namby-pamby responses frustrating during the heated debate.
Synonyms
1
9.9
Not brave and acting weak
Antonyms
How Tough
Surface Forms
Etymology
Namby comes from the mock name Namby Pamby, a teasing rhyme on the poet Ambrose Philips. The nickname sounded 'babyish', so people used namby to mean 'too soft' or 'weak'.