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Namby-pamby
Nam′by-pamˊby
,Noun.
[From
Ambrose Phillips
, in ridicule of the extreme simplicity of some of his verses.] Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.
Macaulay.
Nam′by-pamˊby
,Adj.
1.
Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid.
Thackeray.
Namby-pamby
madrigals of love. W. Gifford.