mealy-mouthed

How To Use mealy-mouthed In A Sentence

• Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
• You're a bit mealy-mouthed and quiet to be a ‘juvenile delinquent’.
• Sadly, the record is nothing more than a mealy-mouthed rumination on Madonna's own superstardom.
• His statement on this topic was so this-worldly and mealy-mouthed that it didn't sound like him at all.
• Rather than bellyache about who owns what media outlets, with a mealy-mouthed ‘it's not fair’ position, perhaps more honest debate and more public discussion would expose the vacuous nature of many current arguments.
• The tone of its letter isn't quite as mealy-mouthed and abashed as I'd hoped. Alfred Gingold: 'Chase Home Weasel' Backs off
• Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Times, Sunday Times
• It may these days sound ingenuous, but in my memory the company gave a great deal more genuine consideration to its employees than one can find in the mealy-mouthed mantras of ‘human resources’.
• The Rules of Professional Conduct (7.2, 7.4; varies somewhat by state, and New York's recent adoption is even less clear!) essentially prohibit using the word "specialist," absent some mealy-mouthed certification ... unless, that is, one is a member of the Patent Bar (which has its own bar exam) or certain aspects of bankruptcy. Discourse.net: For Students About to Take the Bar Exam
• Instead, it was happy with the paper's ‘remedial action’, which amounted - five months after its front-page publication - to two mealy-mouthed paragraphs that offered no apology.