Your friend is a namby-pamby.
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Namby-pamby
Synonyms for "namby-pamby" (133 found)
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35 translations across 4 languages.
French
2 entries- gnangnan adj (insipid and sentimental)
- gnangnan noun (one who is insipid, sentimental, or weak)
Italian
4 entries- codardo adj (lacking vigor or decisiveness)
- insipido adj (insipid and sentimental)
- insulso adj (insipid and sentimental)
- mollaccione adj (lacking vigor or decisiveness)
Spanish
3 entries- soso adj (lacking vigor or decisiveness)
- ñoño adj (insipid and sentimental)
- ñoño noun (one who is insipid, sentimental, or weak)
Swedish
1 entries- mjäkig adj (lacking vigor or decisiveness)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
He’s ten years old now and should be able to take care of himself. If you coddle him too much, he’ll be a namby-pamby baby instead of a live boy.
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[…] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […]
Source: wiktionary
We can honestly commend the Atlantic Monthly as the most able and spirited of American periodicals, at the present time, and we like it, moreover, because it dares have opinions and to express them in unmistakable terms, on subjects which when referred to at all, by most of the current magazines, are mentioned in the gingerliest namby-pamby style of common place neutrality.
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