namby-pamby

How To Use namby-pamby In A Sentence

• Mansfield†™ s lecture is a reading from the first chapter of his book, which argues that manliness†"what he defines as sexual rapacity, an appetite for war, a general bull-in-a-china-shop heedlessnessâ€" is preferable to the namby-pamby faggotistical mores being pressed on us by radical feminism and the castratory mandates of late capitalism / twenty-first-century bureaucratic culture. Harper's Magazine
• But if all these words look wordish, sound wordish, and act wordish, why are they all hedged about with the namby-pamby "I know it's not a real word" disclaimers? Peter Black's Freedom to Differ
• She probably regarded us as a bunch of namby-pamby liberals.
• So I don't see it as namby-pamby leadership; I think it's pretty tough leadership.
• This week we have began to roll out the policies that will take us back to that position and they are not namby-pamby policies.
• She grinned at me and told me I was certainly better than any of the usual namby-pamby house guests.
• She probably regarded us as a bunch of namby-pamby liberals.
• Stephen's allotted family role was that of namby-pamby.
• It is waffly, namby-pamby sort of stuff that actually does not mean anything.
• I can't stand namby-pamby wimps; it's my working-class background.