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 Meal·y-mouthed a. Using soft words; not straightforward; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; speaking deviously; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.  Opposite of frank or blunt. “Mealy-mouthed philanthropies.”
    She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain.   --L'Estrange.
 -- Meal*y-mouth*ness n.
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 mealy-mouthed
      adj : hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as
            from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed
            politician" [syn: mealymouthed]

 mealymouthed
      adj : hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as
            from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed
            politician" [syn: mealy-mouthed]