wishy-washy
[wish-ee-wosh-ee, -waw-shee]
adjective
lacking in decisiveness; without strength or character; irresolute.
washy or watery, as a liquid; thin and weak.
Origin of wishy-washy
First recorded in 1685–95; gradational compound based on washy
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Related Words for wishy-washy
indecisive, banal, cowardly, enervated, feeble, flat, flavorless, ineffective, ineffectual, insipid, irresolute, jejune, languid, listless, mediocre, namby-pamby, spiritless, tasteless, thin, vacillatingExamples from the Web for wishy-washy
Contemporary Examples of wishy-washy
But his Republican party in Washington considers this conservative too wishy-washy to be prime GOP material.
Were his wishy-washy answers in the debate merely an attempt to fool the center into voting for an Islamist candidate?
Historical Examples of wishy-washy
You're not the kind of blonde who'll get wishy-washy or fat.
GigoloEdna Ferber
I always held you as a wishy-washy bourgeois and now you go and pull this thing off.
MoralLudwig Thoma
You will find nothing negative or wishy-washy in the Great Book.
The Victorious AttitudeOrison Swett Marden
He is like an over-shot mill, one everlastin' wishy-washy stream.'
The AttacheThomas Chandler Haliburton
Modern paper-hangings are too superficial and wishy-washy for the purpose.
Passages From the English Notebooks, Volume 2Nathaniel Hawthorne
wishy-washy
adjective informal
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