- mealymouthed
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adjective
Date: circa 1572
not plain and straightforward ; devious <a mealymouthed politician>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
mealymouthed
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mealymouthed — adj. insincere, slippery; of a person who speaks in a vague or indirect manner … English contemporary dictionary
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mealy — adjective (mealier; est) Date: 1591 1. containing meal ; farinaceous 2. soft, dry, and friable 3. a. covered with meal or with fine granules b. flecked with another color c. spotty, uneven d … New Collegiate Dictionary
mealy-mouthed — mealy mouthedly /mee lee mow thid lee, dhid , mowtht , mowdhd /, adv. mealy mouthedness, n. /mee lee mowtht , mowdhd /, adj. avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince… … Universalium
bedim — verb To make dim; to obscure or darken. Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere, if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee … Wiktionary
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