Definition of "wish-wash" [wish•-wash]

• Informal Speech or writing deemed banal or foolish. (noun)
• Informal A thin watery drink. (noun)

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• "What they want is wish-wash and slush, and God knows they get it, but not from you."
• "Presidents Carter and Obama share the same presidential qualities; both being naive, one-side wish-wash, and weak."
• "No: look at the buoy, wish-wash, rolling lazily, bobbing in the water, a lazy, idle cask, with nothing in the world to do on this day of busy mischief."