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/ˈwɪʃ.iˌwɒʃ.i/ · adjective
Wavering; lacking in commitment, certainty, support, and (often) clarity; namby-pamby..
Near-synonyms: vacillating, vacillatory
Not wanting to be pressed for details, public relations gave a wishy-washy answer.
I’m not about to vote Conservative myself (I’m a wishy-washy centrist who liked Tony Blair’s early work and has since mostly voted Labour, with an occasional swing to the Liberal Democrats and Greens)[…]
Near-synonyms: watered-down, diluted, dilute
The wishy-washy orange juice served by the cafeteria not only failed to be sweet; it was barely orange.
Usually the quality of the liquor is judged by the "bite" of it. The hotter the better. A drink of first class, aged whisky would be ridiculed in most parts of Maine as a wishy-washy beverage fit only for mollycoddles. The Down East "soak" wants something that stings and burns all the way, and usually he gets it[…]
And you will appreciate drinking the hot cup, or rather billy, of tea—which is more than one can call the wishy-washy concoction served up in some 'tea-houses'.
Use wishy-washy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wishy-washy means Wavering; lacking in commitment, certainty, support, and (often) clarity; namby-pamby..
Common synonyms include vacillating, vacillatory, watered-down, diluted.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonyms: vacillating, vacillatory
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