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wishy-washyadjective lacking in qualities that make for spirit and characterthis story is too wishy-washy; you need to add some verve to it banal, flat, insipid, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, watery unexciting, uninspiring, unrewardingbland, boring, drab, dreary, dry, dull, heavy, humdrum, jading, leaden, lifeless, monotonous, pedestrian, ponderous, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearyinginaneinnocuous, inoffensivemild, soft, subdued, tame, weakcommon, commonplace, ordinary, stale, unexceptional piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, spicymeaty, substantialentertaining, exciting, galvanizing, inspiring, invigorating, thrilling lacking strength of will or characterin a time of crisis the nation can ill afford wishy-washy leaders characterless, effete, frail, invertebrate, limp-wristed, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, nerveless, soft, spineless, weak, weak-kneed, weakened, weakling, wet(British), wimpish, wimpy flabby, flaccid, forceless, ineffective, ineffectualimpotent, impuissant, powerlessemasculated, unnervedlamblike, meek, pliable, submissivecorrupt, dastardly, unprincipled, unscrupulous, villainouscowardly, craven, fainthearted, lily-livered, nebbishy, poltroon, pusillanimous, sissy, timidinfirm, irresolute, vacillating backboned, firm, hard, strong, tough ethical, good, moral, principled, right, righteous, upright, virtuousdetermined, mettlesome, resolute, unrelentingcourageous, stalwart, stouthearted in 1703 |