MEALY-MOUTHED


Meaning of MEALY-MOUTHED in English

If you say that someone is being ~, you are critical of them for being unwilling to speak in a simple or open way because they want to avoid talking directly about something unpleasant.

He repeated that he did not intend to be ~ with the country’s leaders.

ADJ disapproval

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