Mealy-mouthed

Definitions: Mealy-mouthed

Mealy-mouthed

Adjective

1. Hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician" mealy bug.

Noun

1. Scale-like plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees mealy sage n : Texas sage havin.

Specialty Definitions: Mealy-mouthed

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Mealy-mouthed is the Greek melimuthos (honey-speech), and means velvet-tongued, afraid of giving offence. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	MEALY-MOUTHED. Over-modest or backward in speech. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonyms within Context: Mealy-mouthed

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Falsehood	Artificial, contrived; canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical; tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected.
Flattery	Adjective: flattering;Verb: adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous,
Servility	Adjective: servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching; Verb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Usage Frequency: Mealy-mouthed

"Mealy-mouthed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mealy-mouthed" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Mealy-mouthed

Language		Translations for "mealy-mouthed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		粉性做作地说. (various references)

Greek		ανειλικρινής (insincere). (various references)

Hungarian		mézesmázos (bland, candied, honeyed, mealy mouthed, mellifluous, silky, smarmy, treacly, wheedling), finomkodó (genteel, kid-glove, mealy mouthed, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, ornate, prissy, proper). (various references)

Korean		머알y 입을 우물거리�". (various references)

Pig Latin		ealy-mouthedmay

Russian		сладкоречивый (honeymouthed, honey-mouthed, mealymouthed, silver-tongued, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-talking, smooth-tongued, soft spoken), неискренний (affected, canting, devious, diplomatic, disingenuous, fulsome, hollow, hollow-hearted, insincere, lip, lip-deep, mealymouthed, tongue in cheek, tortuous). (various references)

Swedish		undanglidande (elusive, evasive, mealy mouthed). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งพู�"อ้อมค้อม. (various references)

Vietnamese		ăn nói ngọt sớt m� u mè, ăn nói ngọt ng� o. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Mealy-mouthed

Anagrams: Mealy-mouthed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: mealymouthed.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-l-m-m-o-t-u-y"
	-4 letters: emulated, heatedly, homemade, malemute, modulate.
	-5 letters: deathly, emulate, loathed, melamed, metaled, moulted, mouthed, mudhole, mutedly, myeloma.
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