namby-pamby in English

noun

1

a feeble or effeminate person.

The first group (the namby-pambies ) contrive to let their little darlings come out on top.

adjective

1

lacking energy, strength, or courage; feeble or effeminate in behavior or expression.

these weren't namby-pamby fights, but brutal affairs where heads hit the sidewalk

synonyms: weak, feeble, spineless, effeminate, effete, ineffectual, wimpy, sissy

adjective

• weak, feeble, spineless, effeminate, effete, ineffectual, wimpy, sissy
• spineless, gutless, wishy-washy

Use "namby-pamby" in a sentence

1. Bungling (also: awkward, botched, bumbling, clumsy, feckless, feeble, gutless, ineffectual, inept, namby-pamby)

2. For some people soccer has a reputation as a rather namby-pamby sport.

3. Antonyms for Backboned include milk-and-water, weak, wishy-washy, wimpish, characterless, effete, frail, invertebrate, limp-wristed and namby-pamby

4. Babyish adjective childish, young, simple, soft (informal), silly, spoiled, juvenile, foolish, immature, boyish or girlish, infantile, sissy, puerile, namby-pamby, baby I'm ashamed of the Babyish nonsense I write

5. French and English modes * fashion babies * Namby Pamby * Beau Nash * full-bottomed wig * corners * knotted wig * tie wig * Bagwig * solitaire * pig-tail wig * Ramillies wig * cadogan * Macaronies * pigeon's wings * Greek toupet * Adonis wig * white powder * Meissen porcelain 8 colored powder * decline of the wig * black silk bag * the flash

6. French and English modes * fashion babies * Namby Pamby * Beau Nash * full-bottomed wig * corners * knotted wig * tie wig * Bagwig * solitaire * pig-tail wig * Ramillies wig * cadogan * Macaronies * pigeon's wings * Greek toupet * Adonis wig * white powder * Meissen porcelain 8 colored powder * decline of the wig * black silk bag * the flash

7. Their Cheerful blossoms peeking just above their oval textured leaves will be another attractive contrast to the agapanthus and the schizanthus.: It spins to the music of Christine, music tormentingly Cheerful like some mad maiden's shanty for a sailor gone away to sea.: I may not be popular, but well, the last man to hold this office was a Cheerful tolerant namby-pamby who got himself eaten