How To Use Mealy-mouthed In A Sentence
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And, not to be too mealy-mouthed, it was not fun to use.
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At the same time there is a reaction to the mealy-mouthed media laziness that culturally equates ‘urban’ and ‘black’.
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He repeated that he did not intend to be mealy-mouthed with the country's leaders.
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The paper produced by the church council was untrusting and mealy-mouthed.
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Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
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Rebecca is supposed to have her faults, such as being weak and mealy-mouthed.
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But when Economics Professor Romer says to his students: "Appropriate government subsidies could encourage a socially optimal level of R&D," this is both mealy-mouthed and misleading.
California Energy Tax Proposal, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
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After a succession of mealy-mouthed CBI presidents, content to simmer on the back burner, Sir John, a former Jaguar boss, has roared his desire for the heat of battle.
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Also, the mealy-mouthed reference to taxi deregulation is unworthy of the document.
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Dastardly attempt to win the cause of the working girls by dirty scab leaders and butter-fingered capitalist class," it began, and after this followed a wild jumble of words, words without meaning, sentences without point in which Sam was called a mealy-mouthed mail-order musser and The
Windy McPherson's Son
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This is not a compromise or agreement, it is just being mealy-mouthed.
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Although he is not generally mealy-mouthed about such things, Trollope deliberately, it seems, casts a pall of racial and national ambiguity around Melmotte.
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May the divil fly away with you, you micher from Munster, and make celery-sauce of your rotten limbs, you mealy-mouthed tub of guts.
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Instead, he has produced a mealy-mouthed, begrudging and long overdue response to the commitments made under the Good Friday Agreement.
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You seem to be sure that, when it comes to allusions, the film is to borrow Jody's phrase mealy-mouthed, and not just reasonably ambiguous.
On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight
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Was this, as the Standard was to allege, merely mealy-mouthed hypocrisy, a strategy to protect their immediate interests while searching elsewhere for more legitimate supplies of cocoa?
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How about his mealy-mouthed grandson, who seems like he is swallowing his words in asthmatic whelps?
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The roller-coaster in particular -- indoors and kind mealy-mouthed as it was -- made me forget that I'm supposed to be a cynical recovering alcoholic.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Three: Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
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Instead, it was happy with the paper's ‘remedial action’, which amounted - five months after its front-page publication - to two mealy-mouthed paragraphs that offered no apology.
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You're a bit mealy-mouthed and quiet to be a ‘juvenile delinquent’.
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Sadly, the record is nothing more than a mealy-mouthed rumination on Madonna's own superstardom.
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His statement on this topic was so this-worldly and mealy-mouthed that it didn't sound like him at all.
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Rather than bellyache about who owns what media outlets, with a mealy-mouthed ‘it's not fair’ position, perhaps more honest debate and more public discussion would expose the vacuous nature of many current arguments.
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The tone of its letter isn't quite as mealy-mouthed and abashed as I'd hoped.
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Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may these days sound ingenuous, but in my memory the company gave a great deal more genuine consideration to its employees than one can find in the mealy-mouthed mantras of ‘human resources’.
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The Rules of Professional Conduct (7.2, 7.4; varies somewhat by state, and New York's recent adoption is even less clear!) essentially prohibit using the word "specialist," absent some mealy-mouthed certification ... unless, that is, one is a member of the Patent Bar (which has its own bar exam) or certain aspects of bankruptcy.
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Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
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Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
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The last thing this country needs is smiling, on-message, mealy-mouthed New Labour vs smiling, on-message, mealy-mouthed New Conservative.
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Once again, those pusillanimous, patronising, mealy-mouthed lectionary compilers have excelled themselves.
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Release a mealy-mouthed apology filled with double-entendres which make it clear that the apology is grudging and insincere.
Sanford on Wilson: 'It's time to move on'
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When their dual roles - that of journalist and government shill - were exposed last week, they offered mealy-mouthed defenses of their actions.
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Yet, despite this, they've managed to broaden the nervous-tic angst-rock of their previous band into something more readily adaptable without reducing it to mealy-mouthed pop regurge.
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I'm sick of all the mealy-mouthed mutts who want something for nothing.
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Support for women's reproductive rights is often carefully qualified or mealy-mouthed, if it is expressed at all.
