mealy-mouthed : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mealy-mouthed	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mealy-mouthed
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mealy-mouthed adj hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician" Synonym(s): mealymouthed, mealy-mouthed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mealy-mouthed \Meal"y-mouthed`\, a. Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. [bd]Mealy-mouthed philanthropies.[b8] --Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. --L'Estrange. -- {Meal"y-mouth`ness}, n.