namby-pamby in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for namby-pamby in the English»French Dictionary

namby-pamby [Brit nambɪˈpambi, Am ˌnæmbiˈpæmbi] N ADJ inf, pej

namby-pamby

gnangnan inf

namby-pamby in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for namby-pamby in the English»French Dictionary

namby-pamby [ˌnæmbɪˈpæmbi] ADJ inf

namby-pamby

gnangnan inv

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Self-employed, un-unionised, unsupported by any namby-pamby arts grant, he has got on his bike and got a gig.

www.chortle.co.uk

The term namby-pamby, meaning something that is excessively sentimental, comes from his name.

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No helmet, no grill, no namby-pamby; just a man with courage, wits and a bat.

www.theroar.com.au

Don't you just hate a namby-pamby poem that goes all over the place saying nothing.

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But you can't be namby-pamby and give up.

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It was quite a stark contrast to what had gone before in the '60s and '70s, which was all this kind of namby-pamby language about human potential and worker satisfaction.

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It was scarily efficient, catchy and accessible, without being namby-pamby or soft.

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Could it be that the electorate has grown weary of the namby-pamby political correctness dictated by and adhered to by the centre of politics?

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We have this namby-pamby provincial government that only seems to focus on health care and education.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

And these weren't genteel, namby-pamby affairs.

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