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Wishy-washy   Listen
adjective
Wishy-washy  adj.  Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless. "A weak wishy-washy man who had hardly any mind of his own."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wishy-washy" Quotes from Famous Books



... assure you, Henrietta, you would find it very little exciting to be shut up in this room with half a teaspoonful of wishy-washy pudding twice a day, and all just to fill Philip Carey's pockets! Now, there was old Clarke at Rocksand, he had some feeling for one, poor old fellow; but this man, not the slightest compunction has he; and I am ready to kick him out of the room when I hear that silky voice of his trying to be ...
— Henrietta's Wish • Charlotte M. Yonge



Words linked to "Wishy-washy" :   gutless, weak, namby-pamby



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