Presidents Carter and Obama share the same presidential qualities; both being naive, one-side wish-wash, and weak. From Wordnik.com. [Carter asks Jewish community for forgiveness] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
Read a boys 'book and you will find it full of fun and adventures and excitement, but girls are supposed to care about nothing but wish-wash, about self-denial and being good, and all that. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
Mechanics 'Institutes, and did other such wish-wash work, which is not good for much, except for the motive it shows; and having found that out, they were all the more willing to join in arrangements more definite and profitable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Huy L, what are you a sell-out, a wish-wash fan of the Sharks?. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
After 2 hours of wish-wash talk, a train finally appeared headed in the right direction. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
All the world was lapsing into a grey wish-wash of nothingness, she had no contact and no connection anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
"Bertha, some more milk;" "Bertha, you haven't given me sugar enough by half;" "Bertha, I like strong tea; no wish-wash for me.". From Wordnik.com. [Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days] Reference
I have a love-hate thing going on with this fella, because half of his tunes I think are purely wish-wash while the other half is salutary. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
If things go on this way there will be no Roman nobility nor gentry nor even any Roman commonality; just a wish-wash of counterfeit Romans, nine-tenths foreign in ancestry, with just enough of a dash of Roman blood to bequeath them our weaknesses and vices. ". From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
His mouth but out there flew a trope, "-- floating with the utmost self-complacence down the smooth current of his time; and Blake, sensitive, unique, protestant, impracticable, aggressive: it was a rare freak of Fate that brought about such companionship; yet so true courtesy was there that for four years they lived and wrought harmoniously together, -- Hayley pouring out his harmless wish-wash, and Blake touching it with his fiery gleam. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
Not a bad exchange for the Frenchman's wish-wash claret, I suspect. ". From Wordnik.com. [Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War] Reference
"We either wallow in the wish-wash of disempowering party politics or we choose STERP and make a bold step away from the mundane. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
Couldn't agree with you more... that rose scent just fell apart... wish-wash... but then i'm accustomed to that manly velvet rose in the manner of dragonwyck/vincent price created by sonoma scents won't try that food thing... reads like baby spit. From Wordnik.com. [Lostmarc'h Laan-Ael, Aod, Atao and Iroaz] Reference
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