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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... Oxford English Dictionary
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mealy-mouthed
mealy-mouthednot brave enough to say what you mean directly and honestly. Strangely enough, although we are getting more mealy-mouthed about mental and physical disabilities, we are increasingly frank about bodily functions. Cambridge English Idioms Dictionary
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mealy-mouthed
mealy-mouthed/ˌmi:lɪˈmauðd; `milɪ`maʊðd/ adj(derog贬) not willing to speak plainly 不愿直言的; 说话拐弯抹角的 Don't be so mealy-mouthed, say what you mean! 别这麽绕弯子了, 有话直说吧! 牛津英汉双解词典
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Ton(e)s of Hate
Track listing "Mealy-Mouthed Hypocrisy" - 4:28 "Perseverance Pays" - 3:33 "The Mark Of Dr.Z" - 3:26 "The Flag" - 3:22 "Queen Of Desire" - 3:40 "Petition wikipedia.org
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Wanderlust (Gavin Rossdale album)
Rob Sheffield from Blender panned the album's tracks for coming across more like "a mealy-mouthed, cliché-ridden, bombastic Chris Cornell solo joint", wikipedia.org
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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... Oxford English Dictionary
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Ted Schmidt
All of the show's characters irritated The Washington Post critic Tom Shales, especially Ted because he is a "the mealy-mouthed little mole". Shales felt that Ted deserved to suffer, adding "Lowell gives such a mousy, mealy-mouthed performance that it's hard to feel any sympathy for poor sad wikipedia.org
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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 ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Ariah Park
A wowser is an Australian word describing a "mealy-mouthed hypocrite, a pious prude, one who condemns or seeks to curtail the pleasures of others or who wikipedia.org
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Blaenau Festiniog Junction railway station
Bradshaw may have been mealy-mouthed about the proximity of the FR station, but the LNW station boasted a very large station nameboard proclaiming "BLAENAU wikipedia.org
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honey-mouthed
ˈhoney-mouthed, a. Sweet or soft in speech: often implying insincerity. (Cf. mealy-mouthed.)1539 Latimer Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.) 413, I like not these honey-mouthed men, when I do see no acts nor deeds according to their words. 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. ii. ii. 33 If I proue hony-mouth'd, let my tong... Oxford English Dictionary
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Contract on Cherry Street
Judith Crist, however, would question why Sinatra was starring in a "mealy-mouthed morality tale", although most reviews were positive. wikipedia.org
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meal-mouthed
† ˈmeal-mouthed, ppl. a. Obs. [Formed as prec. + -ed2.] = mealy-mouthed.1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 155 Saying, that you had flatterers & meal-mouthed merchants in high estimation. 1686 Wood Life 5 Nov. (O.H.S.) III. 199 Dr. Reynell..in his sermon was meale-mouthed and timorous. Oxford English Dictionary
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Nixon (album)
"proved that the genre could be commercially viable if it painted its off-kilter pictures of redemption and loss in glorious Technicolor rather than mealy-mouthed wikipedia.org
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mealmouth
† ˈmealmouth, n. and a. Obs. [f. meal n.1 + mouth.] a. n. A mealy-mouthed person. b. adj. Mealy-mouthed.1546 J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 19 When the meale mouth hath woon the bottome Of your stomake, than will the pick-thanke it tell. 1575 G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 92 [Written to a miller] Those sam... Oxford English Dictionary
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