Wishy-washy adj. Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless. "A weak wishy-washy man who had hardly any mind of his own."
... target with her hand; it went round with beautiful ease; the swivel had been oiled to perfection. She almost wished to take old Plomacy at his word, to get on a side-saddle and have a tilt at it herself. What must a young man be, thought she, who could prefer maundering among laurel trees with a wishy-washy school-girl to such fun as this? "Well," said she aloud to herself, "one man can take a horse to water, but a thousand can't make him drink. There it is. If they haven't the spirit to enjoy it, the fault shan't be mine;" and so she returned to ... — Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope Read full book for free!