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namby-pamby

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namby-pamby
adjective
we don't want a club full of namby-pamby bleeding hearts:
weak, feeble, spineless, effeminate, effete, limp-wristed, womanish, prim, prissy, mincing, simpering, niminy-piminy, vapid, insipid, colorless, anemic, ineffectual;
sentimental, oversentimental, mawkish, maudlin;
informal wet, wishy-washy, weedy, wimpish, wimpy, sissy, sissified;
North American, informal candy-assed.
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