mealy

• “Some had the creamy ring on their muzzles that was known as mealy muzzle because it looked as if they had put their noses in a bucket of food and still had the mush on their mouths.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secret of the Night Ponies

• “You seem to be sure that, when it comes to allusions, the film is to borrow Jody's phrase mealy-mouthed, and not just reasonably ambiguous.”

  On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight

• “Dastardly attempt to win the cause of the working girls by dirty scab leaders and butter-fingered capitalist class," it began, and after this followed a wild jumble of words, words without meaning, sentences without point in which Sam was called a mealy-mouthed mail-order musser and The”

  Windy McPherson's Son

• “The face and legs are black, or sometimes mottled, the horns spiral, and on the top of the forehead it has a small round tuft of lighter-coloured wool than on the face; has the muzzle and lips of the same light hue, and what shepherds call a mealy mouth; the eye is full of vivacity and fire, and well open; the body long, round, and firm, and the limbs robust.”

  The Book of Household Management

• “” Jerry once satirized this kind of mealy mouthed reporting by drawing chalk circles on the floor of a car company men's room, standing on them and whispering some observation about where the industry was headed.”

  Forbes: Forbes' Editor Remembers Jerry Flint

• “It would not necessarily foster the kind of mealy-mouth bipartisanship that some of you are concerned about.”

  Mayor Bloomberg: "There is a partisanship that has paralyzed our country."

• “I think it's also apropos to the kind of mealy-mouthed, less than zero sum gain kind of politics that rules America these days in general.”

  Less Than Zero

• “Being a luke-warm fruit lover, 'mealy' wasn't in my culinary vocab - but I guess it should've been, since it means exactly what it should mean - resembling meal.”

  Hawaiian Fruit Part II: White Dragon Fruit

• “They backed into some kind of mealy-mouthed editorial, but I think they could have done a service, because there was so much misinformation and misunderstanding.”

  Oral History Interview with Martha C. McKay, March 29, 1974. Interview A-0324. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “He might have added, that the top is usually the least nutritious, or "mealy" part of the potato, which would make the loss still less.”

  The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines

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