How to Use washy in a Sentence

washy

adjective

• 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
• When the 2017 chemical attack first happened, Trump issued a wishy-washy statement that blamed President Barack Obama for it but didn't offer any retaliatory response.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
• Stevenson wasn’t arguing for a wishy-washy form of moral relativism, but for a real contest of ideas that might help readers clarify their convictions, though not necessarily abandon them.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 July 2017
• The lion, a tawny silhouette with washy internal detailing, is a compositional place marker.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2019
• In the nineteen-forties, Sekula experimented, in her meticulous fashion, with biomorphic and Cubist abstraction; later, her unfettered compositions included vibrant, washy areas and idiosyncratic glyphs.
  — The New Yorker, 22 May 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024