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Meanings of washy in anglès

Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.

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Overly diluted; thin and insipid.

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Usage of washy in anglès
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For a cup of washy tea to break in upon her rubber.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 /...
2
I'll make him think I'm a wishy-washy moonstruck girl, smitten with him.
The Desert of Wheat
3
Its views are Liberal-Conservative, and wishy-washy; its principal concern to remain in office.
Town Life in Australia
4
NYPIRG was a Naderite group, and seen as kind of wishy-washy and bourgeois.
The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
5
There is very little wish-washy coddling of the criminal in Canada.
The Canadian Commonwealth
6
He's a political rightwinger who makes Boris Johnson look like a wishy-washy liberal.
The Guardian
7
You know how I hate the washy supernatural stuff they give us nowadays.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
8
They make Admiral Hornmeyer look wishy washy. A few people chuckled at that.
For Honor We Stand
9
This is not the time for wishy-washy tones or glaring kitsch.
The Guardian
10
Stop being wishy washy and evasive, Bill, do you like LA or not?
Love All The People
11
Japanese preschoolers rolling in the mud as pigs in Mrs Wishy-washy.
Radio NZ
12
High-maintenance types and wishy-washy types will almost certainly exasperate you.
The South African
13
Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt took a similar view, suggesting Mr Guy was wishy-washy.
News.com.au
14
Modern paper-hangings are too superficial and wishy-washy for the purpose.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
15
There is a lot of wishy-washy talk about the Bolshevists, says a Labour paper.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14
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The reasoning was a bit wishy washy -meandos about disruptions and what what.
The South African
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