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Examples
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Swift's Namby Pamby talk (see _OED_ under _Namby Pamby_) and his
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'Namby's the name,' said the sheriff's deputy, as Mr. Pickwick took his spectacles from under the pillow, and put them on, to read the card.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
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'Namby's the name,' said the sheriff's deputy, as Mr. Pickwick took his spectacles from under the pillow, and put them on, to read the card.
The Pickwick papers 1836
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Similarly, the band itself plans to start calling themselvesThe Namby-Pamby Handy-Dandy Warhols, staring with their next release,Completely Fucking Worthless& Useless Shit, which is coming out this January on Portland's Poseurfuck Records label.
Not Again! Christopher Snyder 2010
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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
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Mr. PINKWATER: Namby and Pamby are better for poodles.
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Is it hardly surprising, Madam, that Those who seek the Shelter of Academick Bowers would also seek Redress from every possible Word & Action that could violate their feeble Sensibilities, and that Byzantine Rules & Star Chamber Courts should have sprung up to enforce the Namby-Pamby among effete Students & spineless Professors?
"I encourage conservative and libertarian — or just mischievous — students to flood the system with complaints about anything that offends them." Ann Althouse 2008
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Namby pamby diplomacy, the only arrow in Europe and America's quiver (and certainly in the vacationing Obama's quiver), does nothing.
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He was about to propound the question to Namby, who kept close beside him, sucking a large gold ring on his little finger, when Perker bustled up, and observing that there was no time to lose, led the way into the inn.
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Having informed him that the capture was made, and that he was to wait for the prisoner until he should have finished dressing, Namby then swaggered out, and drove away.
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