Usage of "wishy-washy"

Weak in willpower, courage or vitality.

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Usage of wishy-washy in English

I'll make him think I'm a wishy-washy moonstruck girl, smitten with him. 
 The Desert of Wheat 

Its views are Liberal-Conservative, and wishy-washy; its principal concern to remain in office. 
 Town Life in Australia 

NYPIRG was a Naderite group, and seen as kind of wishy-washy and bourgeois. 
 The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama 

He's a political rightwinger who makes Boris Johnson look like a wishy-washy liberal. 
 The Guardian 

This is not the time for wishy-washy tones or glaring kitsch. 
 The Guardian 

High-maintenance types and wishy-washy types will almost certainly exasperate you. 
 The South African 

Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt took a similar view, suggesting Mr Guy was wishy-washy. 
 News.com.au 

Modern paper-hangings are too superficial and wishy-washy for the purpose. 
 Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. 

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 

Anything outside that range of thought was to them heresy, treason, or wishy-washy sentiment. 
 Now It Can Be Told 

Your call to the rejection of the namby-pamby and the wishy-washy is of course inspiring. 
 Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking 

If I hesitate again, he may decide we're too wishy-washy and yank the offer completely. 
 Wings 

None of the wishy-washy tittle-tattle interested me, in fact. 
 Hearts and Masks 

I am so sick of this rotten, wishy-washy England. 
 To-morrow? 

Morris is a Republican and not a wishy-washy one. 
 The new yorker 

And he's such a weak and wishy-washy little nonentity! 
 The Gray Dawn 

Meanings of wishy-washy in English