- without firm methods or policy; weak or indecisive: namby-pamby handling of juvenile offenders.
- lacking in character, directness, or moral or emotional strength: namby-pamby writing.
- weakly sentimental, pretentious, or affected; insipid.
- a namby-pamby person: written by and for namby-pambies.
- namby-pamby sentiment: the harmless namby-pamby of a birthday card.
- namby-pamby verse or prose.
- sentimental or prim in a weak insipid way
- clinging, feeble, or spineless
- a person who is namby-pamby
