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

• “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.

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

  A Black Adonis

• “_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

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

  The Warden

• “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

• “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

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

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4

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• “Namby-pamby," imposed upon him by Henry Carey (author of _Sally in our”

  Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series

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