See namby-pamby in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"code": "it",
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"word": "fifone"
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{
"code": "it",
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"word": "mollusco"
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"word": "vigliacco"
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"sense": "one who is insipid, sentimental, or weak",
"word": "pusillanime"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "one who is insipid, sentimental, or weak",
"word": "eunuco"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who is insipid, sentimental, or weak",
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"word": "debole"
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"code": "it",
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"word": "pisciasotto"
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"word": "cacasotto"
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"word": "pauroso"
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"code": "it",
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"word": "vile"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one who is insipid, sentimental, or weak",
"word": "checca"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "one who is insipid, sentimental, or weak",
"word": "ricchione"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one who is insipid, sentimental, or weak",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ñoño"
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"Ambrose Phillips"
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"word": "namby-pamby"
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{
"word": "namby-pambical"
},
{
"word": "namby-pambiness"
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{
"word": "namby-pambyism"
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"ref": "2012, Alan Tyers, Who Moved My Stilton?: The Victorian Guide to Getting Ahead in Business:",
"text": "While we business men of Britain have little time for this sort of namby-pambying towards the next generation, who are often feckless, tearful, small, dirty or all of the above, there is no doubt that youths have their place in commerce.",
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