Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Watery; diluted: washy tea.
- adj. Lacking strength or intensity: a washy handshake; washy prose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Watery; damp; moist; soft: as, “the washy ooze,”
- Too much diluted; weak; thin: as, washy tea.
- Hence Wanting in solidity, substantial ness, strength, stamina, or the like; feeble; worthless.
Wiktionary
- adj. Watery; damp; soft.
- adj. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble.
- adj. US, dialect, archaic Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labour.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Watery; damp; soft.
- adj. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble.
- adj. Local, U. S. Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color
- adj. overly diluted; thin and insipid
Examples
“What's really wishy-washy is you, conservative wife-cheating senator, who enjoys the company and services of prostitues, but comes out in public agaist their services.”
“Now he's back to where he started, and they're hoping that this is going -- at least consistency is going to play better for him than being a little bit perhaps wishy-washy, which is how he looked in last week's debate.”
“Traveller, a light chesnut, what the hunter would call a washy brute, always eating and never fat; -- the Colt, so called from his being young, certainly unequal to such a journey as that on which he was taken; -- and”
“Many horses, particularly slack loined, slight, "washy" animals, purge if worked or excited, as may be observed among race horses when taken to a race course.”
“washy" by horsemen; they are those with long bodies, long legs, and narrow, flat sides.”
“Why am I being so wishy-washy when the operational models last night in such good agreement about a changeover with the the storm?”
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“But on my first draft, my protag was kind of wishy-washy, and that is not how I want her to be.”
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“Because Baker, his allies, and occasionally wishy-washy journalists can no longer run on the facts to criticize Gov.”
“(It just doesn't seem like one of those wishy-washy things you can flip-flop on.)”
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“Perry said she truly believes Bybees statement that he stands by the memo, adding, He's not a flip-flopping, wishy-washy type of person.”
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