Definitions for mealy-mouthed

mealy-mouthed meal·y-mouthed

Spelling: [mee-lee-moutht, -mouth d]
IPA: /ˈmi liˌmaʊθt, -ˌmaʊðd/

Mealy-Mouthed is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 758 anagrams from letters in mealy-mouthed (-adeehlmmotuy).

Definitions for mealy-mouthed

adjective

  1. avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.

Origin of mealy-mouthed

First recorded in 1565-75

Examples for mealy-mouthed

The days of mealy-mouthed suavity had not yet come to the Faculty.

But the visual image in the masterly original Greek is not so mealy-mouthed.

Twenty-five years later, he wrote a mealy-mouthed not-quite apology for his rhetoric.

Why are we so mealy-mouthed in denouncing these golden-idol men?

Howsever, when theyre a settled, Ill no be mealy-mouthed wi them.

I s'pose you've been pumping that mealy-mouthed landlubber of a Dolph.

He was not straitlaced, or mealy-mouthed, or overburthened with scruples.

As for all the timid, mealy-mouthed incrementalists, Porter has only contempt for that kind of thinking.

We ain't as mealy-mouthed and as p'lite and as smooth-tongued as the moderns.

He's mealy-mouthed with the woman, and mealy-mouthed with the man, and mealy-mouthed with everybody.

Word Value for mealy-mouthed
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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