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MEALY-MOUTHED Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
adjective. hesitant or afraid to speak plainly; not outspoken .
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MEALY-MOUTHED definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
adjective not outspoken or blunt; not willing to state the facts in simple, direct words; euphemistic and insincere
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Mealy-mouthed - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Originating in the 1570s, "mealy-mouthed" means afraid to say what one really thinks; its origin may be Old English milisc ("sweet") or meal, ...
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mealy-mouth
mealy-mouth (ˈmiːlɪˈmaʊθ) [mealy a. 8; cf. mealy-mouthed a.] 1. A mouth which never utters plain terms; a soft, indirect, or reticent manner of speaking; hence a mealy-mouthed person. Also ironically: see quot. 1941. slang.1600 Dekker Gentle Craft i. (1862) 9 This wench with the mealy mouth, is my w...
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MEALY-MOUTHED Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Mealy-mouthed definition: avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; ...
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MEALYMOUTHED Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MEALYMOUTHED is not plain and straightforward : devious. How to use mealymouthed in a sentence.
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mealy-mouthed
mealy-mouthed, a. (ˈmiːlɪˈmaʊðd) [Cf. mealy a. 8.] Soft-spoken; not outspoken; afraid to speak one's mind or to use plain terms.c 1572 Gascoigne Fruites Warre lxxxvi, So were more meete for mealy mouthed men. 1606 Day Ile of Guls iv. iv, And ile not be mealely mouthed, I warrant em. 1679 ‘T. Ticklef...
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mealy-mouthed - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
mealy-mouthed (comparative more mealy-mouthed, superlative most mealy-mouthed). Prone to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright.
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MEALY-MOUTHED definition | Cambridge English Dictionary
not brave enough to say what you mean directly and honestly: mealy-mouthed excuses, a mealy-mouthed spokesperson.
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60 Synonyms & Antonyms for MEALY-MOUTHED | Thesaurus.com
mealy-mouthed · affected · deceptive · devious · disingenuous · equivocal · hypocritical · insincere. Did You Know? "Muscle" originates from the Latin word for ...
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mealy-mouth, v. meanings, etymology and more
OED's earliest evidence for mealy-mouth is from 1934, in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston, writer and anthropologist. It is also recorded as a noun ...
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Tricholoma sejunctum
The odor is mild to mealy and the taste mild to unpleasant. 'Yellow Green Mouth Mushroom').
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mealy
▪ I. mealy, a. (ˈmiːlɪ) Also 6–7 mealie, 7–9 meally. [f. meal n.1 + -y.] 1. Resembling meal, having the qualities of meal, powdery. Of fruits: (see quot. 1725). Of potatoes when boiled: Forming a somewhat dry and powdery mass, resembling flour (considered to be a good quality: opposed to waxy).1533 ...
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The Wind Done Gone
One of her brothers was whipped to death when Mealy Mouth discovered his affair with her husband. The other starved to death as a baby when his mother became wet nurse to Mealy Mouth's child.
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Dudleya brittonii
The leaves of the glaucous form of Dudleya brittonii are covered with a dusty, chalky, mealy white epicuticular wax. Gates at the mouth of a canyon north of the 32nd parallel, supposedly "midway between Descanso and Ensenada." D. brittonii was described by Donald A.
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