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Meanings of washy in inglês

Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.

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Overly diluted; thin and insipid.

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Examples for "faded"
Examples for "faded"
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Since September 11th, events in Northern Ireland have faded out of view.
The Irish Times
2
It happened quite quickly, and soon the bird was no longer faded.
Folktales from africa: the baboons who went this way and that
3
And my shirts are honorably faded by sun, sea, and hard work.
Shadow zone
4
A tiny trail of smoke curled up; and faded in the blue.
The Call of the Blood
5
But the jungle was gone; the vision had faded with the seer.
Everybody's Lonesome: A True Fairy Story
1
Krusteaz and Fleischmann's mixes use bleached flour, while others list unbleached flour.
The bread lover's bread machine cookbook: a master baker's 300 f...
2
She set a small silver box on the bleached wood coffee table.
Afternoon delight
3
The original colour of the garment will spread into the bleached area.
The Guardian
4
We are all bleached almost white; my uniform hangs about me loosely.
Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
5
The damask table cloths with the ribbon pattern must be bleached to-morrow.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
1
My environment is restored, though with a somewhat washed-out look to it.
The Great Book of Amber
2
But I had taken against the washed-out tunic I'd put on yesterday.
Shadows in Bronze
3
The interior of the van looked like a gray, washed-out video feed.
Deep black
4
However, the image of her washed-out face would not leave my mind.
The Rise of David Levinsky
5
He held it out with his queer washed-out smile, and Steinmetz smiled.
The Sowers
Usage of washy in inglês
1
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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