Example sentences for: wishy-washy

How can you use “wishy-washy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Among the first group are many children's words-- Georgy-Porgy, Henny-Penny, Turkey-Lurkey, kitchy-kitchy, lippity-lippity, piggly-wiggly . Among the second are fuddy-duddy, funny-money, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, namby-pamby, shilly-shally, silly-billy, ticky-tacky, wishy-washy , and the double cited above, willy-nilly . The power gained through rhyme and rhythm seems to be directed by the diminutive suffix toward favorable or unfavorable meanings.

  • She never got to be more than wishy-washy, insecure, a good person who went wrong and apologized and would really be a lot nicer if she just got laid.

  • "The Great Equivocator" bashes CIA Director-nominee Anthony Lake as too wishy-washy to head the agency: He was soft toward the Soviets during the Cold War, he's soft toward the Chinese now, and he's scared of using force to achieve foreign-policy goals.

  • This explains his love of campaigning and his wishy-washy, please-everyone political agenda, as well as his many girlfriends.

  • A Cambridge don's assessment of recent indictments of psychoanalysis--including its alleged sexism, pseudoscience, and ineffectiveness--is deemed "dispassionate" (Sarah Boxer, the New York Times Book Review ) by some, wishy-washy by others.


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