Definition of Meali-mouthed
Meal"y-mouthed` (?), a. Using soft
words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling
to tell the truth in plain language. "Mealy-mouthed
philanthropies." Tennyson.
She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature
speaks so plain. L'Estrange.
-- Meal"y-mouth`ness (#), n.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
MEALY-MOUTHED. Over-modest or backward in speech.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- prone to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright
* The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. -- Thoreau
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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