mealy-mouthed in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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mealy-mouthed in the PONS Dictionary

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Publicly ruining people, then backtracking with out-of-court settlements and mealy-mouthed apologies, is business as usual.
www.vancouversun.com
It might sound like a curiously mealy-mouthed compliment.
www.bbc.co.uk
And for what will sound like a very mealy-mouthed reason.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Many also described the eventual apology as mealy-mouthed.
www.cbc.ca
By contrast, why does every one else seem so mealy-mouthed?
www.vox.com
But these seem mealy-mouthed criticisms when you consider the book as whole, as a tapestry of lives and history, beautifully constructed.
www.independent.co.uk
That is one reason why all the bankers' crisis-related apologies seemed so mealy-mouthed.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Pull the trigger, you mealy-mouthed piece of dirt.
itheedread.jezebel.com
In his excellent autobiography, he admitted that mealy-mouthed underplaying of what was in fact clinical depression did him a disservice.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Press coverage has been typically boring and mealy-mouthed.
spectator.org

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