This drink tastes like it has been watered down.
The budget may be watered down when it reaches parliament next month.
These "creative" goods don't represent real creativity, but rather a watered down "acceptable" form of creativity that is mass-produced.
Don't worry, if you really do have a great idea, it will get watered down over time without any effort from you.
In Mexico a plan to raise beer taxes from 25% to 28% was watered down by lawmakers on October 20th: taxes will now rise by only one-and-a-half percentage points.
The milk had been watered down.
Furious lobbying seems to have watered down that proposal.
The criticisms had been watered down so as not to offend anybody.
UK and France lobby to have safety checks watered down, while Switzerland moves to phase out its nuclear power plants.
Genuine art is used up, disintegrated, and simplified by folk art; it is watered down, botched and bowdlerized by popular art.
This beer has been watered down!
The English teacher watered down the course for the slow-learning students.
The frozen food has preservatives and the milk you are feeding your baby could be watered down.
We have watered down a rigid training . . . until we now have an educational diet in many of our public high schools that nourishes neither the classes nor the masses(Agnes Meyer)
The wine was watered down for the children.
Unscrupulous producers are suspected of adding it to watered down milk to make it appear more nourishing.
Look, over there, a face full of wrinkles of the elderly, the next step, a powerful young arm with... "worm" also with the passage of time has been watered down!
It can be watered down and applied in thin washes over a painting or applied opaquely.
Sarbanes-Oxley is likely to be given a makeover this year, with its notorious section 404 on internal controls watered down.
Some consider it vague and already watered down by Germany's opposition to some of Mr. Sarkozy's objectives.
The story has been watered down.
He watered down the wine.
They watered down the soup to make it go further.
Yesterday afternoon's rainstorm, once watered down the midsummer rampancy, the ground flooded with flowers, the news of the alternation of summer and autumn happily told the season.
Pink was once a color associated with masculinity, considered to be a watered down red and held the power associated with that color.
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