Namby-pamby

Namby-pamby do gooders have destroyed the Democratic Party just as the psychotic religious right has destroyed the other one.

Illinois Legislature Won't Fast-Track Blago Impeachment 2009

Namby-pamby faiths like Deism I pretty much leave be.

Just in time for the election, Michael Newdow's "Under God" lawsuit is back, along with a challenge to "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency. Ann Althouse 2007

Namby-pamby in these days is not thrown away if it be introduced in the proper quarters.

The Warden 2004

Namby-pamby, silly-billy stories, misleading in every line!

A Black Adonis Linn Boyd Porter 1883

_Namby-pamby_ belongs to a tolerably numerous class of words in our language, all formed on the same rhyming principle.

Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

Namby-pamby in these days is not thrown away if it be introduced in the proper quarters.

The Warden Anthony Trollope 1848

Steele would have done, to iterated efforts for the help of a friend like Ambrose Philips, whose poems to eminent babies, 'little subject, little wit,' gave rise to the name of Namby-pamby.

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

Namby-pamby wingnuttery from Megan McArdle-ultralites doesn't attract the high-dollar donors or the lily-white eyeballs of the Joe Droolbucket base.

Roger Ailes 2009

Namby-pamby was the title of a poem written by Henry Carey in 1726, ridiculing the poetic efforts of Ambrose Philips.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4 1984

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