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washy
[ wosh-ee, waw-shee ]
adjective
- diluted too much; weak:
washy coffee.
- pale, thin, or weak, as if from excessive dilution; pallid:
washy coloring.
washy
/ ˈwɒʃɪ /
adjective
- overdiluted, watery, or weak
- lacking intensity or strength
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Derived Forms
- ˈwashiness, noun
- ˈwashily, adverb
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Example Sentences
This week’s mortgage rates should rise slightly on this wishy-washy news from the Fed.
But, according to a post the group published on May 5, within six months, Facebook will have to reassess its originally wishy-washy penalty.
But his Republican party in Washington considers this conservative too wishy-washy to be prime GOP material.
That these terms happen, however, to be such wishy-washy ones—"cute, interesting, zany"—seems depressing.
Were his wishy-washy answers in the debate merely an attempt to fool the center into voting for an Islamist candidate?
"The idea seemed really wishy-washy at first, but as I got more religious it began to make sense," he says.
A man with a feeble, wishy-washy expression holds by each hand a fierce, but subjugated tiger.
Utterly opposed to any such wishy-washy settlement of our national difficulties, I vote "no."
The contrast when the good man got into the pulpit and began to pray in a borrowed, washy lingo—extempore in more senses than one!
His color is about his worst point, as he is a light, washy chestnut, with a bald face and three white heels.
In No. 298, The Watering-place, the rather heavy paint of the foliage gives a thin washy look to the foreground.
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