namby-pambiness

Noun

namby-pambiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being namby-pamby.
   • Many men boastfully spurn the useful but humble rubbers. To wear them seems to argue a lost virility; it is a confession of weak namby-pambiness. Yet the burly traffic policeman wears the effeminate or senile rubber without shame as a part of his uniform.1923 March 25, Bally Fairfield Burton, “The Folly Test of Fashion”, in The New York Times (Magazine section), volume LXXII, number 23,801, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...
   • Trump has sold himself to the public as the decider, the guy willing to make the tough calls in short order — just the opposite of the lily-livered, namby-pambiness that has infected Washington politicians.2017 February 14, Chris Cillizza, “If [Donald] Trump is ‘unbelievably decisive,’ why did it take him weeks to fire Michael Flynn?”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post...

   Synonyms:

   namby-pambyism