Word Meanings - NAMBY-PAMBY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.

Related words: (words related to NAMBY-PAMBY)

• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WRIT
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
• PRETTYISM
  Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc. Ed. Rev.
• SENTIMENTALIST
  One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
• WRITHLE
  To wrinkle. Shak.
• PRETTY-SPOKEN
  Spoken or speaking prettily.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• AFFECTEDLY
  1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. 2. Lovingly; with tender care. Shak.
• WEAKLY
  In a weak manner; with little strength or vigor; feebly.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• SENTIMENTALIZE
  To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
• WRITHE
  to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and
• WRITTEN
  p. p. of Write, v.
• SENTIMENTALITY
  The quality or state of being sentimental.
• PRETTYISH
  Somewhat pretty. Walpole.
• WRITE
  to scratch, to score; akin to OS. writan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rizan, Icel. rita to 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• UNDERWRITING
  The business of an underwriter,
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• UNWRITE
  To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.