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meal-mouthed

meal-mouthed is the alternative form of mealy-mouthed.

Meaning of mealy-mouthed

Adjective

mealy-mouthed (comparative more mealy-mouthed, superlative most mealy-mouthed)

  1. Prone to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright.
    • The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature.1849, Thoreau, A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers, page 115

Questions about meal-mouthed

What is meal-mouthed the alternative form of?
Meal-mouthed is the alternative form of mealy-mouthed.

Words near meal-mouthed in the dictionary

  1. meal tickets
  2. meal voucher
  3. meal vouchers
  4. meal-monger
  5. meal-mongers
  6. meal-mouthed
  7. meal-pock
  8. meal-pocks
  9. meal-poke
  10. meal-pokes
  11. meal-tide

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