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Synonyms for washy

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adjlower than normal in strength or concentration due to admixture

adjlacking the qualities requisite for spiritedness and originality

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adjoverly diluted

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The couple, who appeared on BBC's People Like Us, ran the Wishy Washy laundrette - a cornerstone of the community filled with eccentric characters that showcased the vibrancy and the jarring reality of living in the area.
Maybe it is time for wishy- washy to be washed out.
The trees are rendered in a uniformly washy olive tone and what seem as few brushstrokes as possible, but the sequence of their thin vertical trunks, several slightly bent and one conspicuously denuded of fronds, successfully, if sparsely, evokes the sense of a hurricane passing through and conveys the fragility of nature.
"Add a likeable Aladdin and silly side-kick Wishy Washy, a beautiful princess and a wise-cracking and sarcastic genie and you've got a great panto."
However, with wishy washy fellow Caledonian Cameron also in the mix, Sporting have lowered his expected share to 44-48.
Wishy Washy and Widow Twanky - also known as panto favourites Ray Spencer and Bob Stott, stars of the theatre's current show Aladdin - have been invited to Gothenburg to introduce a group of Swedish writers, performers and producers to a British institution.
Aled Davies, 31, of Talywern, Ponthirwaun, near Cardigan, saw his home-bred 21-month-old entry, Hirwaun Washy, head a line-up of 13 to take the senior prize.
The seasonal offering by OFTM Productions also stars Ant and Helen from Mercia FM's very own breakfast and features memorable characters such as Wishy Washy and the Genie.
This instrument (cheap Freudian read: broken pump organ equals Barry's sex life) cues the first of Blake's painterly animations (washy color fields resolving into multihued "harp strings" and twinkling stars, ostensibly evoking love) and Jon Brion's score, which alternates between the Sturm und Clang of later Tom Waits and the stoned Hawaiian languor of the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.
McGuigan got within 5000 votes of McConnell at the last election, but friends said he was unhappy with Swinney's lack of belief that the SNP can win seats in Labour's heartlands and his wishy- washy line on independence.
Washy Talky guides the user through the entire washing process, starting by telling him or her 'in a female warm, personal Indian middle class accent' to 'drop detergent, close lid and relax.'
Here, the work--a washy replica of the painted ceiling--is a cipher not only for our attempts to imagine what it "must have been like" to have been Freud's patient, but also for a slew of other possibilities.
Washy Hibbert's commitments at Salisbury and Wincanton force him to quit his post as clerk of the course at Hereford.
THE first night of late night shopping will be marked tomorrow when panto dame Andy Hockley, Wishy Washy in the Belgrade's production of Aladdin, turns on West Orchards shopping centre lights.