资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Mealy-mouthed \Meal"y-mouthed`\, a.
Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate
of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
``Mealy-mouthed philanthropies.'' --Tennyson.
She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks
so plain. --L'Estrange.
-- {Meal"y-mouth`ness}, n.
资料来源 : WordNet®
mealy-mouthed
adj : hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as
from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed
politician" [syn: {mealymouthed}]