as in cowards
a person without strength of character
those namby-pambies at city hall are never going to get serious about our crime problem
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Monger battled jellyfish stings, exhausting winds and energy-sapping heat to finish the course which winds itself around Hawaii’s Big Island.—
Amanda Davies,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025 -
Examples include the jellyfish cut, where there is a solid ‘bob’ with longer strands at the bottom.—
Laia Farran Graves,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Namby-pambies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/namby-pambies. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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