Modifies a noun

• liberal: If you support them you're a wishy-washy liberal.

• nonsense: This last one was in direct opposition to the wishes of the Prime Minister who wanted some kind of wishy-washy compromise nonsense.

Modifying Another Word

• too: The effort to ensure a speedy buy out of the Inverness Air Terminal has been far too wishy-washy.

• somewhat: Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin and the ABPI oppose - and the BMA is guarded and somewhat wishy-washy in its response.

• pretty: Where I was pretty wishy-washy on animal testing before, I'm much stronger in my support for it now.

• so: As a consequence of this, the defined boundaries of the notion of " activity " are so wishy-washy as to be totally incomprehensible.

• very: William H Light, Georgia Madonna and child SIR - Your article on Madonna's adoption was interesting, but very wishy-washy.