as in cowards
a person without strength of character
those namby-pambies at city hall are never going to get serious about our crime problem
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Noun
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And Trump calls ’em almost like cowards.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2026 -
Put beaks on the helmets, you cowards.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The hippos carve the winding channels of the Delta, breaking through blockages of reeds and water lilies and opening floodgates for the rain that flows down from Angola each year.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Dozens of kayakers lined up beneath the West Mission Bay Drive Bridge on a clear, chilly Saturday morning, preparing to paddle through the San Diego River Estuary’s shallow reeds in search of trash threatening one of the region’s most important wildlife habitats.—
Walker Armstrong,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Jan. 2026
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While the design here is emphatically traditional, a dose of modern whimsy comes through with a dangling, multi-floor chandelier loosely inspired by jellyfish.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
6 Feb. 2026
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The team also documented an extremely rare phantom jellyfish (Stygiomedusa gigantea), which is known to grow as long as a school bus.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Namby-pambies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/namby-pambies. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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