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mea·ly mouthed
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Mealy-mouthedadjective
Soft mouthed; unable to speak freely.
Etymology: imagined by Stephen Skinner to be corrupted from mild-mouthed or mellow-mouthed: but perhaps from the fore mouths of animals, that, when they are unable to comminute their grain, must be fed with meal.
She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. Roger L'Estrange.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mealy mouthed in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mealy mouthed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of mealy mouthed in a Sentence
To the right it sounds mealy mouthed, and to the left sounds patronizing.
They know that they got caught, so they never even addressed that, they just issued these mealy-mouthed statements, but what I would say to ’60 Minutes’ and the American people, they have so much contempt for their viewers to try to gaslight them like this.
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