Served by waiters whose attitudes range from accommodating to brusque, the pastries are merely adequate and tea is a better bet than the watery coffee.

During the nineteenth century, the poor people drank little else but water (of poor quality), sometimes watery coffee (or chicory) or tea.

A meal with a first-rate main course can be spoilt by pappy bread, bad or extortionately priced wine and watery coffee.

There is nothing worse than watery, cold coffee, which is what one gets when conventional ice cubes go into the glass.

Jane went to her own office to do some thinking, getting a plastic mug of watery coffee from a machine on the way.

Huge cups with nasty, watery coffee that they tried to re-fill all the time.

When my mother wasn't hovering in hospital hallways with watery coffee, she wrote novels.

It was mystifying, but certainly more interesting than Miss Dort's announcements or the watery coffee in the lounge.

Managed to sit up, to drink half a cup of watery black coffee.

She siphoned hot, watery coffee noisily into her mouth without lifting the cup from the table at all.