How to Use wishy-washy in a Sentence

wishy-washy

adjective
  • And this isn't some wishy-washy concept.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 31 Jan. 2026
  • After a wishy-washy few days, Mel Owens is an engaged man.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The Moon wills the chart and can make a wishy-washy Libra decisive and direct.
    — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2026
  • But a late-breaking twist may have set the second season (streaming now on Netflix) free from its wishy-washy roots.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • There’s also the part where Suárez has been relatively healthy, which is a wishy-washy description for a reason.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • These are redemption raps with only the vaguest sense of what redemption might look like, a wishy-washy desire to both stomp the haters and be widely loved again.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 1 Apr. 2026
  • And wishy-washy responses to lawmakers’ questions, should the economy take a turn for the worse, are unlikely to fly.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Someone who’s a little wishy-washy, depending on if the cameras are up, that would definitely be messy Ashley Darby.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • Advertisement Mallory’s ruthlessness in the custody fight begins to alarm wishy-washy Karl.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 20 May 2026
  • During the fevered sectionalism of the Civil War era, his once-sage ambiguity began to appear wishy-washy.
    — Christopher Lynch, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
  • After last week’s hard-line family-resemblance death panel overseen by Bobchelle Visage, this is entirely too subjective and wishy-washy.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2026
  • While the market may seem wishy-washy on EVs right now, at least in the United States, most automakers with EVs already in the works are plowing forward.
    — Kristin Shaw, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
  • Davide Costa stars as Cady’s wishy-washy romantic partner Aaron and Ryan Perry Marks is Kevin, the frenetic leader of the school math club.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026
  • But unlike a presidential year when constant coverage and social pressure pushes weak partisans and wishy-washy leaners into the pool, the midterms belong to the unicorn voters — those with a high likelihood to vote but a low partisan attachment.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Much of the recent coverage cites wishy-washy export signals as having a major effect on Nvidia’s stock with the on-again, off-again nature of H20 sales to the Middle Kingdom shaking things up.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At the risk of sounding wishy-washy like Thomas Mann at his worst moments, that understanding of the full spectrum of experience in both types of society and all the attendant nuances that made neither order much better or worse than the other comes across affectingly here.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
  • The entire, chaotic saga—a wishy-washy White House, confused statements from populist and tech-elite Trump whisperers—is only the latest in a long string of strange, often contradictory AI-policy positions.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026

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