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Definition of Mealymouthed
1. Adjective. Hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy. "A mealymouthed politician"
Definition of Mealymouthed
1. a. Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
Definition of Mealymouthed
1. Adjective. (alternative form of mealy-mouthed) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mealymouthed
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mealymouthed
Literary usage of Mealymouthed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1889)
"... Mr. Gladstone's eyes —for he confessed that he “did not like to be mealymouthed
in such a case “—was “a shameful, an inhuman, and a brutal proceeding. ..."
2. Johnson's Dictionary by Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1836)
"Mealy, mè'-Ié. a. of the taste or softness of Medallion, ше-dál'-yun. », a large
medal or coin. [als meal. mealymouthed ..."
3. Sdi: A View from Europe by Robert C. Hughes (1995)
"... for instance, against Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe, calling his
speech "mealymouthed, muddled in conception, negative, Luddite, ill- informed and, ..."
4. Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle (1870)
"Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere,—if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity;
with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, ..."
5. History of the Whig Ministry of 1830, to the Passing of the Reform Bill by John Arthur Roebuck (1852)
"... is the giving people an opportunity of saying that we were very moderate and
mealymouthed as long as there was a chance of the Duke of Wellington taking ..."
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