How to pronounce“pamby”in English
And a third were very negative, feeling that this was foolish, naive, manipulative.
Do you think you're going to keep us with some namby pamby concept of a mission and values and creating a special community?
And it's hard to get up in front of a group in that setting, when you know that a very substantial percentage, by far the majority
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Clipping of namby-pamby.
“English, sterling genuine English, is a desideratum amongst you, and I am glad that I have got so much left; though Heaven knows how I retain it: I hear none but from my valet, and his is Nottinghamshire; and I see none but in your new publications, and theirs is no language at all, but jargon. Even your **** is terribly stilted and affected, with ‘very, very’ so soft and pamby.”
Clipping of namby-pamby.
““He’d scorn it. You heard what he said to-night,” answered Ben. “Never mind that. He’s got tony notions, but he isn’t a pamby, for all his talk.[…]””