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Meanings of wishy-washy in English

Weak in willpower, courage or vitality.

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        1
        Preventing that was indeed more important than love, especially Oscar's spineless variety.
        Imajica: Complete Edition
        2
        Even Alicia's young son, Wade, seemed to take after Maureen's spineless family.
        Running scared
        3
        So far you've proven to be as incompetent as you are spineless.
        Darkness unleashed
        4
        We could not go on with sentimental novels and spineless lyrics forever.
        Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
        5
        For faith is not a tame and spineless thing that dares nothing.
        Sermons on Biblical Characters
        1
        I don't care to hear him called a 'gutless wonder'... by anyone.
        Flag in Exile
        2
        And as usual, he's half right, half wrong, and all gutless.
        Summer knight
        3
        A gutless editorial. Mr Trump called for the author to turn themselves in.
        News.com.au
        4
        But you don't believe him; you're just scared gutless of him.
        The stand
        5
        You didn't make all this in your twenties by being bird-brained or gutless.
        Talk of the town
        1
        Piety is not a namby-pamby sentiment; it is a great intellectual force.
        The Warriors
        2
        This wasn't some namby-pamby peacenikery; it was a critical part of winning.
        A journey: my political life
        3
        Tombs in his sing-song namby-pamby University voice was concerned to get information.
        Mr. Standfast
        4
        By the bye, what a little namby-pamby thing that Mabel Ainsley is.
        Isabel Leicester / A Romance by Maude Alma
        5
        Some of them say I will have a weak, namby-pamby Sunday-school sheet.
        In His Steps
        Usage of wishy-washy in English
        1
        I'll make him think I'm a wishy-washy moonstruck girl, smitten with him.
        The Desert of Wheat
        2
        Its views are Liberal-Conservative, and wishy-washy; its principal concern to remain in office.
        Town Life in Australia
        3
        NYPIRG was a Naderite group, and seen as kind of wishy-washy and bourgeois.
        The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
        4
        He's a political rightwinger who makes Boris Johnson look like a wishy-washy liberal.
        The Guardian
        5
        This is not the time for wishy-washy tones or glaring kitsch.
        The Guardian
        6
        High-maintenance types and wishy-washy types will almost certainly exasperate you.
        The South African
        7
        Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt took a similar view, suggesting Mr Guy was wishy-washy.
        News.com.au
        8
        Modern paper-hangings are too superficial and wishy-washy for the purpose.
        Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
        9
        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
        10
        Anything outside that range of thought was to them heresy, treason, or wishy-washy sentiment.
        Now It Can Be Told
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        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
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        If I hesitate again, he may decide we're too wishy-washy and yank the offer completely.
        Wings
        13
        None of the wishy-washy tittle-tattle interested me, in fact.
        Hearts and Masks
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        I am so sick of this rotten, wishy-washy England.
        To-morrow?
        15
        Morris is a Republican and not a wishy-washy one.
        The new yorker
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        And he's such a weak and wishy-washy little nonentity!
        The Gray Dawn