11 example sentences using mealy-mouthed.
Mealy-mouthed used in a sentence
Mealy-mouthed in a sentence as an adjective
This is what mealy-mouthed "best tool for the job" rhetoric misses.
"That's what you suggested, seems pretty mealy-mouthed to me.
When they do they don't emote much, and it tends toward mealy-mouthed politeness.
The trade-off in this case is that a more mealy-mouthed warning would lead to more people clicking through.
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.
This is mealy-mouthed repetition of the same garbage that publishers want devs to believe.
"For once you start down the path of the mealy-mouthed forever will it dominate your vocabulary.
I nearly changed my wording to use constructions like "the author," "they," and various other mealy-mouthed alternatives but they were too ugly.
And I experienced something like the reverse of this, while I was on FB. Seeing my friends being mealy-mouthed and trite continually, because they were on a public platform visible to everybody they ever met in their life, made me involuntarily lose so much respect for them.
You could call someone mealy-mouthed, two-faced, greedy, ruthless, petty, malicious, mercenary, or disloyal.
You'll often find such mealy-mouthed conclusions in write-ups of studies where the evidence doesn't confirm the author's hypothesis, and especially in anticipation of controversy.
Mealy-mouthed definitions
hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician"
See also: mealymouthed