How to Use washy in a Sentence

washy

adjective
  • There’s a big part of me now wondering if either the Ducks or the Beavers should even want the wishy-washy act of Williams.
    John Canzano | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2019
  • One study from the journal Appetite illustrates just how wishy-washy the term can be.
    Joy Bauer, Ms, Woman's Day, 20 Aug. 2019
  • These wishy-washy half measures never will get rid of single-use shopping bags.
    Paul Sassone, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2017
  • What is really going on with KD, and Kerr and his wishy washy information?
    Mark Medina, The Mercury News, 7 June 2019
  • BDSers see it as a wishy-washy half-measure that doesn’t accomplish anything but salve conscience of liberal Jews like me.
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 15 May 2018
  • But after The Cakemaker's over, audiences will shrug, instantly forget the wishy-washy characters and not even run to the nearest patisserie.
    Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2017
  • However, this is a wishy-washy term with no true definition and is usually used as an umbrella for any product that claims to protect the planet’s resources.
    Olivia Fleming & Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Aug. 2019
  • However, the last three decades have seen a plethora of bland, insipid American compositions in wishy-washy tonal idioms infect our concert halls.
    Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 June 2017
  • The wishy-washy approach has left policymakers flummoxed.
    Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Yet if many Germans seem satisfied enough with their leader, others are unhappy with the wishy-washy consensus of the main political parties.
    Melissa Eddy and Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Open-mindedness doesn’t have to mean wishy-washy intellectual limbo, and there’s nothing arrogant about taking a stand based on evidence.
    Wired Letters Department, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2006
  • The best is the smiles and dancing at the washy washy station.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
  • But like most of his saccharine repertoire, the lyrics don’t go much further than a washy setting of twinkly romance at the sock hop.
    Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • There is a difference between a stalemate forced by performance and a wishy washy coach.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2023
  • What wasn’t though was the wishy-washy nature laced along the rest of that news release.
    oregonlive, 30 Jan. 2020

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