washy

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-- "are used" is such a wishy-washy term.

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Quick take

overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

adjective

having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for washy.

adjective

overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"

adjective

having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"

Example sentences

-- "are used" is such a wishy-washy term.

I've read their party programme, and it's a bit wishy-washy.

It's far more wishy-washy, and in a patent suit like this one the issues are far more complicated.

So silicon valley's real value is to coddle the needs of wishy-washy primadonnas as they attempt to find them self?

I'm wishy-washy on the term almost here... there are still affordable corners, I guess... a modest house in nice shape in the excelsior probably could crack $700.

Their wishy-washy side-channel PR tactics of handling bad publicity are getting really tiring now.

The idea is that the prospect of being perceived as wishy-washy is so devastating socially, that we have evolved to actually change our self-image and our beliefs to reflect our actions and words.

Only the creation of physical things apparently counts as real productivity, and all of this service economy crap is somehow wishy washy or even illusory.

You can be as wishy washy as you like about different situations requiring different processes, but have you ever seen somebody successfully isolate software engineering from coding and put them in sequence?

The problem is the loss of privacy for innocent civilians, to which Obama and other government officials respond to with wishy-washy arguments about "tradeoffs" between security and privacy.