[
UK
/mˈiːli/
]
[ US /ˈmiɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈmiɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- containing meal or made of meal
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composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
the photographs were grainy and indistinct
it left a mealy residue
granular sugar
How To Use mealy In A Sentence
- Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
- You're a bit mealy-mouthed and quiet to be a ‘juvenile delinquent’.
- SONIC REDUCER Music journalism pet peeve no. 538: e-mail interviews that allow mealymouths and word mincers to dodge and defer from behind an iron wall of monosyllables. AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
- The development of leatheriness showed a similar lack of polyuronide depolymerization, with no detectable depolymerization relative to pre-ripening and a greater arrest of depolymerization than in mealy fruit.
- Insects such as ants, mealy bugs and thrips have been found in 37 out of 43 shipments, which then needed fumigation.
- Sadly, the record is nothing more than a mealy-mouthed rumination on Madonna's own superstardom.
- They dart among flowers and lay eggs among clusters of aphids, mealy bugs, mites, scale and other pests where their larvae can feed.
- His statement on this topic was so this-worldly and mealy-mouthed that it didn't sound like him at all.
- He was out here to acclimate himself to the cold, and the mealy scent of the everlasting ice was strong. T2©: RISING STORM
- Pseudopollen is a mealy material, usually whitish or yellowish in colour, which superficially resembles pollen.