mealy-mouthed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy
    mealymouthed.
    • a mealymouthed politician

WordNet

Meal"y-mouthed` adjective
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913