What's the difference between swashy and washy?

Swashy


Definition:

  • (a.) Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.

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Washy


Definition:

  • (a.) Watery; damp; soft.
  • (a.) Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions.
  • (a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's a little sweetly, wishy-washy in the body, but, for a beer of its ilk, it has a real thirst-quenching bitterness to it.
  • (2) To be fair, Clinton has strengthened her wishy-washy language about protecting Social Security somewhat since early in her campaign (after being pressed on it by Bernie Sanders during the Democratic debates).
  • (3) But even that stance is considerably harder than the threats (many wishy-washy) from oil companies to reduce investment in the North Sea.
  • (4) The SASAWASHI Company in Japan started as a joint venture with Dr Mitsuo Kimura of Mie University, who originally conducted research on how to make washi out of kumazasa.
  • (5) Life becomes a series of stuttering noises stretching into eternity, punctuated only by interruptions for someone to complain about the “chunkiness” or “creaminess” or “washiness” or whatever-ness of a fly’s buzz.
  • (6) Noises were described as “washy”, “pingy”, “chunky”, “spongy”, “roomy”, “blatty” and “futzy”.
  • (7) It also seems wishy-washy nonsense to the archbishop.
  • (8) After Obama's wishy-washy defence of Muslim Americans' freedom to build a community centre, which includes a mosque, two blocks away from Ground Zero, a poll from the Pew Research Centre reveals that nearly 20% of Americans – up from 11% a year ago – consider him a Muslim, and nearly 43% are unsure of his religion.
  • (9) In an era of such change, this is not wishy-washy utopianism: it is the hardest of hard-headed realism.
  • (10) My socialism, imbibed with my mother’s milk and my father’s ruminations, was at once of the same slightly wishy-washy oppositional character suggested by Amis’s remark, and wreathed about by rather more dangerously seductive visions of the wholesale transformation of the social order by whatever means necessary.
  • (11) Photograph: SASAWASHI Co., Ltd. Sasawashi For over 1,400 years, Japanese artisans have been making traditional paper called washi , which is made from the fibres of plants and trees.
  • (12) A wishy-washy compromise was not going to win them votes.
  • (13) I don’t think this is a wishy-washy alternative to academic achievement.
  • (14) Some of our LGBT performers have to deal with wishy-washy audiences of pseudo-hipster techie types.
  • (15) 9.38pm GMT The rhetoric is getting all the more washy and the evening nears it's close.
  • (16) And no, this is not coming from the lips of a wishy-washy progressive teacher spawned by Gove’s “blob”, but is an integral part of the national development of a country right at the top of those international league tables we aspire to emulate.
  • (17) Richardson said the IPCC report was "wishy-washy" on issues such as sea level rise.
  • (18) It sounds tough, determined, unlike the wishy-washy “soft Brexit”.
  • (19) Video of the encounter , repeatedly aired on television, shows the 79-year-old emperor calmly taking the letter, written on a folded "washi" paper with ink and brush, and briefly talking with Yamamoto.
  • (20) When Falcao’s number was up in that last game at Old Trafford against Arsenal , he walked towards the substitutes’ bench after another wishy-washy display and raised his hand with an almost apologetic wave to the crowd.

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