[
US
/ˈwɑʃi/
]
[ UK /wˈɒʃi/ ]
[ UK /wˈɒʃi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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
- Politically they're neither right-wing nor left - just a bunch of wishy-washy pseudo-liberals.
- According to Forbes, Barack Obama is the new Jimmy Carter; weak and wishy-washy in the face of the threats from North Korea's nuclear sabre-rattling. The Next Right Wing Meme
- Politically they're neither right-wing nor left - just a bunch of wishy-washy pseudo-liberals.
- These works are delicate and loose, with washy grounds and linear accents, bits of cross-hatching and curving organic shapes.
- It seems like a window that you could step through and the gentle, washy colours are like the dew on freshly mown grass.
- But the opposite of inflexibility is wishy-washy, right? Executive Suite: Knowledge of failure helps lead to success
- In one, the stick-straight, regular strokes, painted light against a washy dark so that fine black lines halo every gesture, suggest bare twigs caught in an ice storm.
- Backlighting the hand, a bright yellow disk rests against a washy sienna background encircled by a repeating phrase in Gujarati.
- Much grandiose painting business is imposed on top of a large blue spiral enclosing washy green transparencies.
- Last night's crystal clear certainties were dissolving into wishy-washy doubts. FINAL RESORT