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  • And, not to be too mealy-mouthed, it was not fun to use.
  • At the same time there is a reaction to the mealy-mouthed media laziness that culturally equates ‘urban’ and ‘black’.
  • He repeated that he did not intend to be mealy-mouthed with the country's leaders.
  • The paper produced by the church council was untrusting and mealy-mouthed.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
  • 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.
  • Also, the mealy-mouthed reference to taxi deregulation is unworthy of the document.
  • 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
  • This is not a compromise or agreement, it is just being mealy-mouthed.
  • Although he is not generally mealy-mouthed about such things, Trollope deliberately, it seems, casts a pall of racial and national ambiguity around Melmotte.
  • 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. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
  • Instead, he has produced a mealy-mouthed, begrudging and long overdue response to the commitments made under the Good Friday Agreement.
  • 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
  • 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?
  • How about his mealy-mouthed grandson, who seems like he is swallowing his words in asthmatic whelps?
  • 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
  • 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.
  • You're a bit mealy-mouthed and quiet to be a ‘juvenile delinquent’.
  • Sadly, the record is nothing more than a mealy-mouthed rumination on Madonna's own superstardom.
  • His statement on this topic was so this-worldly and mealy-mouthed that it didn't sound like him at all.
  • 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.
  • The tone of its letter isn't quite as mealy-mouthed and abashed as I'd hoped. Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off
  • Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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’.
  • 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. Discourse.net: For Students About to Take the Bar Exam
  • Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
  • Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
  • The last thing this country needs is smiling, on-message, mealy-mouthed New Labour vs smiling, on-message, mealy-mouthed New Conservative.
  • Once again, those pusillanimous, patronising, mealy-mouthed lectionary compilers have excelled themselves.
  • 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'
  • When their dual roles - that of journalist and government shill - were exposed last week, they offered mealy-mouthed defenses of their actions.
  • 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.
  • I'm sick of all the mealy-mouthed mutts who want something for nothing.
  • Support for women's reproductive rights is often carefully qualified or mealy-mouthed, if it is expressed at all.

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