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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : wish-ee-wosh-ee, -waw-shee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɪʃ iˌwɒʃ i, -ˌwɔ ʃi |
Definition of wishy-washy
Origin :- 1690s, "feeble or poor in quality," reduplication of washy "thin, watery" (see wash (n.)). Meaning "vacillating" first recorded 1873.
- adj bland, dull
- You're not the kind of blonde who'll get wishy-washy or fat.
- Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber
- I always held you as a wishy-washy bourgeois and now you go and pull this thing off.
- Extract from : « Moral » by Ludwig Thoma
- You will find nothing negative or wishy-washy in the Great Book.
- Extract from : « The Victorious Attitude » by Orison Swett Marden
- He is like an over-shot mill, one everlastin' wishy-washy stream.'
- Extract from : « The Attache » by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- Modern paper-hangings are too superficial and wishy-washy for the purpose.
- Extract from : « Passages From the English Notebooks, Volume 2 » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- It was the most wishy-washy concoction that was ever put on paper.
- Extract from : « Dixie Hart » by Will N. Harben
- None of the wishy-washy tittle-tattle interested me, in fact.
- Extract from : « Hearts and Masks » by Harold MacGrath
- I should think that Mr. Reed would have about as much respect for a namby-pamby novel as he has for a wishy-washy politician.
- Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 » by Various
- They have stimulated me so far to produce two lectures of wishy-washy generalities.
- Extract from : « The Letters of William James, Vol. II » by William James
- A man with a feeble, wishy-washy expression holds by each hand a fierce, but subjugated tiger.
- Extract from : « By The Sea » by Heman White Chaplin
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