How to Use washy in a Sentence

washy

adjective
  • These wishy-washy half measures never will get rid of single-use shopping bags.
    — Paul Sassone, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2017
  • One study from the journal Appetite illustrates just how wishy-washy the term can be.
    — Joy Bauer, Ms, Woman's Day, 20 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • What is really going on with KD, and Kerr and his wishy washy information?
    — Mark Medina, The Mercury News, 7 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The lion, a tawny silhouette with washy internal detailing, is a compositional place marker.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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