namby-pamby in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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I.namby-pamby [Am ˌnæmbiˈpæmbi, Brit nambɪˈpambi] ADJ inf

II.namby-pamby <pl namby-pambies> [Am ˌnæmbiˈpæmbi, Brit nambɪˈpambi] N inf

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namby-pamby in the PONS Dictionary

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And these weren't genteel, namby-pamby affairs.
www.independent.ie
Once you know this, more benign explanations for this vestigial cat activity seem hopelessly namby-pamby.
www.radiotimes.com
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
Don't you just hate a namby-pamby poem that goes all over the place saying nothing.
www.npr.org
The message was that movies with real men in them could dispense with namby-pamby fonts.
www.thehindu.com
The term namby-pamby, meaning something that is excessively sentimental, comes from his name.
en.wikipedia.org
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.
www.abc.net.au
It was namby-pamby to us, a throwaway for an album.
en.wikipedia.org
And unlike in many "real sports" nowadays, there's none of this namby-pamby everyone's-a-winner nonsense.
news.nationalpost.com
We have this namby-pamby provincial government that only seems to focus on health care and education.
www.winnipegfreepress.com

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