namby-pamby

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

名詞

One who is insipid, sentimental, or weak. / Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.

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He was called a namby-pamby by his colleagues after he backed out of the risky negotiation.

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意味（1）

One who is insipid, sentimental, or weak.

Namby Pamby’s doubly Mild, Once a Man, and twice a Child; To his Hanging-Sleeves restor’d Now he foots it like a Lord; Now he Pumps his little Wits; Sh—ing Writes and Writing Sh—s,

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意味（2）

Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.

Another of Addison’s favourite companions was Ambrose Phillipps, a good Whig and a middling poet, who had the honour of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby-Pamby.

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namby-pambies （ plural ）