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- adjective
superlative form ofwashy : mostwashy .
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Examples
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Even our wishy washiest weak knee liberal pansy is tougher than their toughest tough guy.
Bob Wright proposes a "competition to see who can be more civil and at the same time be more disagreeing in a substantively contentious way." Ann Althouse 2008
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And he'd go off to some one else, and you'd know that you'd been doing the wishy-washiest thing in the world, though he hadn't spoken a word of criticism, and couldn't.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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And he'd go off to some one else, and you'd know that you'd been doing the wishy-washiest thing in the world, though he hadn't spoken a word of criticism, and couldn't.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878
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And he'd go off to some one else, and you'd know that you'd been doing the wishy-washiest thing in the world, though he hadn't spoken a word of criticism, and couldn't.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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Tim O’Brien’s untooned Charlie Brown shows what the wishy-washiest bald kid in the world would look like if he were a living, breathing person.
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Oh dear, even out here in Australia we remember that awful stuff – I even had a ’suit’ of the wishy-washiest baby blue.
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The colonial taste for good liquor was spoiled from the very beginning, first by black strap and rum, condensed from the steam of hell, then by Old Tom and British brandy, fortified with tobacco -- this liquor was the nectar with which the ambrosial station hands were lambed down by the publicans -- and in these latter days by colonial beer, the washiest drink a nation was ever drenched with. the origin of bad beer dates from the repeal of the sugar duty in
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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Floy, and no one can have a moment’s patience with the man, he knows what goes on in the City tolerable well, and says that your Pa does nothing without Mr Carker, and leaves all to Mr Carker, and acts according to Mr Carker, and has Mr Carker always at his elbow, and I do believe that he believes (that washiest of Perches!) that after your Pa, the Emperor of
Dombey and Son 2007
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(that washiest of Perches!) that after your Pa, the Emperor of India is the child unborn to Mr Carker. '
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841
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