mealy

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It doesn't get mealy, just softer, and it's still great to eat.

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containing meal or made of meal

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mealy gathered in one view.

adjective

containing meal or made of meal

adjective

composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mealy.

adjective

containing meal or made of meal

adjective

composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue"

Example sentences

It doesn't get mealy, just softer, and it's still great to eat.

"Wait, you mean it's possible for them to not be mealy?

" Bah, who has ever liked a mealy apple?

Theil => Thile, rhymes with "mealy"Him and the band playing Bach on bluegrass instruments.

As a kid, they were my favourite apple, but as I got older, they got softer and more mealy.

When they do they don't emote much, and it tends toward mealy-mouthed politeness.

Rather, you think people are supposed to be all mealy-mouthed so that you don't feel like they are too presumptuous?That doesn't make sense.

Red delicious apples get mealy fast, sometimes before you buy them.

"Red delicious apples get mealy fast, sometimes before you buy them.

"For once you start down the path of the mealy-mouthed forever will it dominate your vocabulary.

Golden Delicious can also get mealy, but quality varies a lot.

I'm not sure how old you are, but I'm 33 and remember hating red delicious since elementary school because they were mealy.

In addition he strongly discouraged 'mealy mouthed' language, and imprecision.

I nearly changed my wording to use constructions like "the author," "they," and various other mealy-mouthed alternatives but they were too ugly.

Their reporter was busted for at best being sloppy and at worst lying to grind an axe against electric vehicles -- and they delivered a mealy mouthed half-admission of fault.

If something is fucking stupid, then someone needs to say exactly that, not "That's a good idea, but it seems to me and my mealy mouth that such and such may be another way of doing it...?

You could call someone mealy-mouthed, two-faced, greedy, ruthless, petty, malicious, mercenary, or disloyal.

Because it allows them to be mealy mouthed pandering marketing trolls: The gung ho surveillance advocates get to see their arguments justified in fiction because the surveillance is necessary for the good guys to win while the anti-surveillance crowd gets to see the machine destroyed at the end.