They were so altogether unlike anything he had known before that in spite of the praise of the thousands of readers which they had brought to the magazine the dissatisfaction of the tens of little namby-pamby authors alarmed him.
These religious dialogues are numerous, but the majority of them are very namby-pamby productions, and unworthy of a reprint.
Namby Pamby begins with an N and a P, while Humpty Dumpty begins with H and D.
Here's a new bit of Mother Goose I've dashed off: "Namby Pamby sat on the fence, Namby Pambytumbled from thence.
Namby Pamby tumbled--and so it goes all through the poem.
Perhaps it is natural in a way that golf, which has so much of wild nature about it, should be least inclined to brook the rivalry of games of the namby-pamby order.
He did not share that unlucky taste for the namby-pamby by which Wordsworth annoyed his contemporaries, and spoilt some of his earlier poems.
There are times, of course, when this moralising tendency leads him to the regions of the namby-pamby or sheer prosaic platitude.
How can those girls, who give evidence of no more thought than is evinced by their namby-pamby chatter, call their existence living?
You aren't half such a namby-pamby coxcomb as you were when I first came to London at Christmas.
Being a good daughter sounds namby-pamby and Sunday-schoolish, but being a good son, when you happen to be a girl, sounds just fine.
I was a bit of a namby-pamby kid myself one time, until I went to sea and got it all knocked out of me--and you did some of the knocking out yourself, Judson.
Ask ME indeed to pop a robber under a bed, to hide a will which shall be forthcoming in due season, or at my time of life to write a namby-pamby love conversation between Emily and Lord Arthur!
Our William I, whatever he might be, was at least no namby-pamby sentimentalist.
Bismarck's grandfather, Karl Alexander, leaned toward the namby-pamby intellectual rather than to the social and convivial.
His enemy was now dead, and the archdeacon could not bring himself to adopt before his wife the namby-pamby everyday decency of speaking well of one of whom he had ever thought ill, or of expressing regret when no regret could be felt.
There was a maudlin, missish, namby-pamby sentimentality about them which disgusted her.
It was the new minister's wife who called Nimbi-Pamby the Little Prophet.
Footnote 16: Namby Pamby is said to have been a nickname for Ambrose Phillips.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pamby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
