What's the difference between washiness and washy?
Washiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.
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.
(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.