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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mealy-mouthed \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." --Tennyson.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks
           so plain.                                --L'Estrange.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Meal"y-mouth`ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "mealymouthed":
     Pecksniffian, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, abject, adulatory, affected,
     backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying,
     bootlicking, buttery, cajoling, canting, casuistic, complimentary,
     courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching,
     dishonest, disingenuous, empty, fair-spoken, false, fawning,
     fine-spoken, flattering, footlicking, fulsome, goody, goody-goody,
     groveling, gushing, hangdog, holier-than-thou, hollow,
     honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, hypocritic, hypocritical,
     ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, jesuitic, obeisant,
     obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, parasitic,
     pharisaic, pharisean, pietistic, pious, prostrate, sanctified,
     sanctimonious, self-righteous, simon-pure, slimy, slobbery, smarmy,
     smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy,
     soft-soaping, sponging, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating,
     toadying, toadyish, tongue in cheek, truckling, uncandid, unctuous,
     unfrank, unserious, wheedling
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "mealy-mouthed":
     ambiguous, artful, circumlocutory, deceitful, equivocal,
     equivocating, euphemistic, hesitant, hypocritical, indirect,
     mincing, oily, periphrastic, reluctant, reticent, roundabout,
     slick, unctuous, vague
  
  

















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