mealy-mouthed

adjpretentious

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adj pretentious

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fulsome

adjective. sickening or excessive behavior

Word Origin & History

"afraid to say what one really thinks," 1570s; first element perhaps from Old English milisc "sweet," from Proto-Germanic *meduz "honey" (see mead (n.1)), which suits the sense, but if the Old English word did not survive long enough to be the source of this, perhaps the first element is from meal (n.2) on notion of the "softness" of ground flour (cf. Middle English melishe (adj.) "friable, loose," used of soils).

Example Sentences for mealy-mouthed

We ain't as mealy-mouthed and as p'lite and as smooth-tongued as the moderns.

Why are we so mealy-mouthed in denouncing these golden-idol men?

I s'pose you've been pumping that mealy-mouthed landlubber of a Dolph.

But the visual image in the masterly original Greek is not so mealy-mouthed.

He was not straitlaced, or mealy-mouthed, or overburthened with scruples.

The days of mealy-mouthed suavity had not yet come to the Faculty.

Howsever, when theyre a settled, Ill no be mealy-mouthed wi them.

He's mealy-mouthed with the woman, and mealy-mouthed with the man, and mealy-mouthed with everybody.

What's more, there was the mealy-mouthed Marvell to reckon with.

"Keep your mealy-mouthed compassion for yourself," he retorted, sneering.

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