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Namby-pamby
Namby-pamby Nam"by-pam`by, n. [From Ambrose Phillips, in ridicule of the extreme simplicity of some of his verses.] Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. --Macaulay.
Namby-pamby
Namby-pamby Nam"by-pam`by, a. Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. --Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. --W. Gifford.

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- Namby-pamby is a term for affected, weak, and maudlin speech/verse. It originates from Namby Pamby (1725) by Henry Carey. Carey wrote his poem as a satire...
- other poets of his time, resulting in Henry Carey bestowing the nickname "Namby-Pamby" upon him, which came to mean affected, weak, and maudlin speech or...
- Nursery Songs (1870). The earliest reference to the well-known verse is in "Namby Pamby," a satire by Henry Carey published in 1725, in which he himself italicised...
- successful that Carey himself began to be known as "Namby Pamby Carey" (while Philips became known as "Namby Pamby"), and the poem even came to be used as children's...
- rhyme is suggested by its use by Henry Carey in his satire Namby Pamby (1725), as: Namby Pamby is no clown, London Bridge is broken down: Now he courts...
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- Movie". Box Office India. Rediff On The NeT, Movies: 'I don't like making namby-pamby pictures.' "'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' wins all top Filmfare honors". India...
- crank who would make a better villain". He felt Jonathan Frakes "verges on namby-pamby". Actress Marina Sirtis later recalled the reviews of the show's debut...
- four elegies attributed to Cooke; English Colonial America Henry Carey, Namby Pamby: or, a panegyrick on the new versification address'd to A----- P----...
- need be followed in public and is unable to bring himself to adopt "the namby-pamby every-day decency of speaking well of one of whom he had ever thought...