namby-pambyadjective
uk/ˌnæm.biˈpæm.bi/us/ˌnæm.biˈpæm.bi/informal disapprovingweak, silly, or emotional:
She thinks we're a bunch of namby-pamby liberals.
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Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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Stupid and silly