[
US
/ˈwɑʃi/
]
[ UK /wˈɒʃi/ ]
[ UK /wˈɒʃi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having lost freshness or brilliance of color
faded jeans
sun-bleached deck chairs
washy colors
a very pale washed-out blue -
overly diluted; thin and insipid
washy coffee
watery milk
weak tea
How To Use washy In A Sentence
- Us married just five months, and her the nicest girl living, and you keeping us flat broke all the time, you damned old thief, so you can put money away for your saphead of a son and your wishywashy fool of a daughter! Babbit
- They've pretty much dropped social/political style illustrations for lots of washy winter scene's or visual jokes.
- In addition, the power-assisted steering doesn't get all wishy-washy so the driver can feel what the front wheels are doing.
- Politically they're neither right-wing nor left - just a bunch of wishy-washy pseudo-liberals.
- Politically they're neither right-wing nor left - just a bunch of wishy-washy pseudo-liberals.
- If there's anything I can't stand it's an indecisive, wishy-washy customer.
- A washy monochrome, its broad rectangles of turpentine-thinned burnt sienna lack not only the powerful materiality of the other paintings, but the intensity of fully saturated color as well.
- Now, here she is confronted by Lucy's chaos and Barnaby's wishy-washy sentimentality. SEA MUSIC
- Honestly, I'm still kind of wishy-washy," Everett confides once Joyce is out of earshot. As midterm nears, Democratic activist sees fewer friendly faces in Arkansas
- Modern beer is thin washy stuff that ploughmen would have called small beer. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
