washy
diluted too much; weak: washy coffee.
pale, thin, or weak, as if from excessive dilution; pallid: washy coloring.
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How to use washy in a sentence
This week’s mortgage rates should rise slightly on this wishy-washy news from the Fed.
Mortgage rates are stubbornly remaining below 3 percent | Kathy Orton | June 17, 2021 | Washington PostBut, according to a post the group published on May 5, within six months, Facebook will have to reassess its originally wishy-washy penalty.
Media Briefing: How media leaders are trying to combat burnout beyond the newsroom | Tim Peterson | May 6, 2021 | DigidayBut 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.
Zany, Cute, Interesting: What the Words We Use Say About Us | Benjamin Lytal | October 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWere his wishy-washy answers in the debate merely an attempt to fool the center into voting for an Islamist candidate?
Egyptian Elections: There Is No Clear Frontrunner in a Crowded Field | Mahmoud Salem | May 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
"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.
By The Sea | Heman White ChaplinUtterly opposed to any such wishy-washy settlement of our national difficulties, I vote "no."
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention | Lucius Eugene ChittendenThe contrast when the good man got into the pulpit and began to pray in a borrowed, washy lingo—extempore in more senses than one!
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) | George EliotHis 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.
British Dictionary definitions for washy
/ (ˈwɒʃɪ) /
overdiluted, watery, or weak
lacking intensity or strength
Derived forms of washy
- washily, adverb
- washiness, noun
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