Sentence examples for washy from inspiring English sources

The word 'washy' is an adjective used in written English
It is used to describe something that is weak, thin or watery. For example, "The soup was too washy for my taste."

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washy

adjective

Watery; damp; soft.

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Eavis himself perhaps symbolises the confused wishy washy ideology underpinning most of the non-committed ruritarians who fall in behind WOMAD internationalism.

If I know my Attorney General, she's not the wishy washy, temporizing political stooge some surly folks say she is, spun like a weathervane by conflicting pressures, and with all the style sense of Kramer on "Seinfeld".

Welters of wristy line on washy grounds describe crowd scenes of besuited, solid men accompanying (or dreaming of) gracefully limned nude women.

She was not charged with a crime, but, according to the death investigation, she was "wishy washy" about what had happened, and asked the firemen who responded to the scene if she had killed him.

KIM GORDON Faces painted in washy watercolors on rice paper are framed and propped up around the walls, like an audience assembled to absorb the sound piece composed with Thurston Moore, broadcast from speakers.

Bächli's severe grisaille palette offsets her washy, brushy touch; a preoccupation with abstract line effloresces occasionally into figurative elements (a pair of eyes or stockinged legs).

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Digging their heels in over the issue of elected mayors, South and West Yorkshire carved out wishy-washy deals with the Treasury which were deathly pale in comparison with that being celebrated and ever-embellished on the other side of the Pennines.

As a wishy-washy liberal who holds fast to the two great central political tenets of our time, as expressed by David Mitchell of this paper – "I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that" and "it just goes to show you can't be too careful" – I am used to being on the side of … well, hopefully, kindness, doing the right thing and everybody getting along.

But Ukip is attractive to people who enjoy a scrap and dislike wishy-washy compromise which is the essence of mainstream politics except in acute crisis.

It is Angela Merkel's permanently rightwing regional ally, always trying to put some backbone into those wishy-washy North German Protestants and Rhineland Catholics who dominate the majority Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin.

Apart from their lack of blur and judder when tracking fast-moving objects and their freedom from wishy-washy greys, they can be viewed from wider angles than LCDs without the picture changing colour.

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