Piety is not a namby-pamby sentiment; it is a great intellectual force.

No soul is finally held by the indefinite, or the namby-pamby.

Way back in the primitive; no hint of those namby-pamby green meadows and set rows of shade trees that make most country towns detestable; rocks and bouldersboulders and rocksand the scraggly pines for background.

I'll buy any theatre in New York where you try to present your namby-pamby play.

Cut a dash, and don't be a namby-pamby.

Cut a dash, and don't be a namby-pamby.

Let it not be supposed, however, that we are speaking of a namby-pamby tale of the luxuries and successes of what is called "high life," for this book has nothing of that character.

"With making Mr. Hardcastle less offensively pompous, and Mrs. Hardcastle less tedious, and Mrs. Upjohn less dogmatic, and Mrs. Anthony more sincere, and Miss Delano less namby-pamby,in short, by taking a little of the superficiality and narrow-mindedness and provinciality out of the place if possible.

He is not a philosopher, but a sophist, a misanthrope in verse; a namby-pamby Mandeville, a Malthus turned metrical romancer.

No namby-pamby everyday living of dishes and dusting and meals and babies for me.

By and by, we have a piece of namby-pamby "to the Small Celandine," which we should almost have taken for a professed imitation of one of Mr. Phillips's prettyisms.... Further on, we find an "Ode to Duty," in which the lofty vein is very unsuccessfully attempted.

Love, it may be said, has carried away better poets and graver men than Mr. Moxon seems to be, into such namby-pamby nonsense; but Mr. Moxon is just as absurd in his grief or his musings, as in his love.

After a deal of namby-pamby Platonism, the girl, as Mr. Bulwer says, "goes to the deuce."

But the women of '52 and '53 were not of the namby-pamby sort.

They form a prominent feature in every new literary project, and not unfrequently literature, to use a hackneyed phrase, is made their vehiclelike the namby-pamby of an English opera for the strains of Rossini or Weber.

" How can those girls, who give evidence of no more thought than is evinced by their namby-pamby chatter, call their existence living?

She herself is looking so pretty, and she shows off in the most favorable light, while all the time singing her dear friend's praise with such fatal persistency that she fairly makes him sick of the sound of her name and of her namby-pamby virtues.

"I am afraid she is rather a namby-pamby person," he thought, "with nothing but her beauty to recommend her.

NAIRNE, William (Lord Dunsinan), accompanies Johnson to St. Andrews, v. 54, 56, 58, 62; to Edinburgh Castle, v. 386; praised by him, v. 53; and by Sir Walter Scott, ib., n. 3; mentioned, iii. 41, 126; v. 38, 394-5. NAIRNE, Mr., the optician, iii. 21, n. 2. Namby-Pamby, i. 179.

His geniality that wore a philosophic cloak before the world, caused him to abandon himself in the 'Spectator', even more unreservedly than 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.

With a dim flash of doubt, as he said it, whether there might not, after all, be a Something,some deep of calm, of eternal order, where these coarse chances, these wrestling souls, these creeds, Catholic or Humanitarian, even that namby-pamby Kitts and his picture, might be unconsciously working out their part.

And Ethelyn named her cousin Frank, while Richard felt a flush of something like resentment that he should be required to imitate a person whom in his secret heart he despised as dandyish, and weak, and silly, and "namby-pamby," as he would probably have expressed it if he had not forsworn slang phrases of every kind.

I said"to get a namby-pamby way of writingwhat a reviewer calls painfully kind?

PHILIPS, AMBROSE, minor poet, born in Leicester, of good family; friend of Addison and Steele, and a Whig in politics; held several lucrative posts, chiefly in Ireland; wrote pastorals in vigorous and elegant verse, and also some short sentimental verses for children, which earned for him from Henry Carey the nickname of "Namby-Pamby" (1678-1749).

I am not a namby-pamby miss.