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- Milquetoast
- baby
- banal
- bathetic
- bathos
- beery
- betwixt and between
- big baby
- bland
- bleeding heart
- breakable
- brittle
- cheap-jack
- chicken
- cloying
- cloyingness
- cobwebby
- crumbly
- crybaby
- dainty
- delicate
- delicately weak
- doormat
- driveling
- dull
- dull tool
- effeminate
- elegant
- euphemistic
- euphuistic
- exquisite
- fair
- fair to middling
- fairish
- flat
- flimsy
- formalistic
- fragile
- frail
- frangible
- gimcrack
- gimcracky
- goo
- goody good-good
- goody-goody
- gooey
- gossamery
- gushing
- gutless wonder
- hearts-and-flowers
- inane
- indifferent
- innocuous
- insipid
- invertebrate
- jejune
- jellyfish
- jerry
- jerry-built
- lackluster
- light
- lightweight
- maudlin
- maudlinness
- mawkish
- mawkishness
- mediocre
- medium
- meek soul
- middling
- milk-and-water
- milksop
- mincing
- moderate
- modest
- mollycoddle
- mush
- mushiness
- mushy
- namby-pambyism
- namby-pambyness
- nebbish
- nonentity
- nostalgia
- nostalgic
- nostomania
- nostomanic
- of a kind
- of a sort
- of sorts
- overnice
- overprecise
- overrefined
- oversentimental
- oversentimentalism
- oversentimentality
- oversentimentalized
- pansy
- pantywaist
- papery
- passable
- pasteboardy
- pedantic
- precieuse
- precious
- precisian
- precisianistic
- precisionistic
- puny
- puristic
- pushover
- respectable
- romantic
- romanticism
- sad sack
- sapless
- sappy
- sentiment
- sentimental
- sentimentalism
- sentimentality
- sentimentalized
- shattery
- simpering
- sissified
- sissy
- sleazy
- slight
- slop
- sloppiness
- sloppy
- slush
- so-so
- soap opera
- sob story
- soft
- softling
- softy
- sop
- sticky
- sweetness and light
- tacky
- tear-jerking
- tearjerker
- teary
- tedious
- tolerable
- unsubstantial
- vapid
- weak sister
- weakling
- wishy-washy
- wispy
- womanish
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word namby pamby
Mousqueton was a native of Normandy. HIs real name was Boniface, but Porthos thought this sounded too namby-pamby, so he changed it to the more impressive name of Mousqueton.
The Three Musketeers-Alexandre Dumas
July 18, 2009