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namby-pambyadjective lacking in qualities that make for spirit and charactershe's such a namby-pamby nothing that it's no wonder she's never asked out banal, flat, insipid, milk-and-water, watery, wishy-washy unexciting, uninspiring, unrewardingbland, boring, drab, dreary, dry, dull, heavy, humdrum, jading, leaden, lifeless, monotonous, pedestrian, ponderous, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearyinginaneinnocuous, inoffensivemild, soft, subdued, tame, weakcommon, commonplace, ordinary, stale, unexceptional piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, spicymeaty, substantialentertaining, exciting, galvanizing, inspiring, invigorating, thrilling lacking strength of will or charactermocked namby-pamby intellectuals who endlessly debate the pros and cons of everything and invariably end up accomplishing nothing characterless, effete, frail, invertebrate, limp-wristed, milk-and-water, nerveless, soft, spineless, weak, weak-kneed, weakened, weakling, wet(British), wimpish, wimpy, wishy-washy flabby, flaccid, forceless, ineffective, ineffectualimpotent, impuissant, powerlessemasculated, unnervedlamblike, meek, pliable, submissivecorrupt, dastardly, unprincipled, unscrupulous, villainouscowardly, craven, fainthearted, lily-livered, nebbishy, poltroon, pusillanimous, sissy, timidinfirm, irresolute, vacillating backboned, firm, hard, strong, tough ethical, good, moral, principled, right, righteous, upright, virtuousdetermined, mettlesome, resolute, unrelentingcourageous, stalwart, stouthearted a person without strength of characterthose namby-pambies at city hall are never going to get serious about our crime problem doormat, jellyfish, pushover, reed, weakling, wimp coward, milquetoast, mouse, nebbish, nervous Nellie(or nervous Nelly), pussy(slang), wuss(also wussy)sheep stalwart mensch in 1745 |