washiness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of washiness
Example Sentences
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The meaning, to be sure, was still vague enough; and whenever some commonplace truth or plausibility protruded from the general washiness, it was seized upon and beaten and stretched to the last degree of tenuity.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
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