mealy
Use Mealy in a sentence
li adjective, meal·i·er, meal·i·est.
1.
having the qualities of meal; powdery; soft, dry, and crumbly: mealy potatoes; a mealy stone.
2.
of or containing meal; farinaceous: baked fish with a mealy crust.
3.
covered with or as if with meal or powder: flowers mealy with their pollen.
4.
flecked as if with meal; spotty: horses with mealy hides.
5.
pale; sallow: a mealy complexion.
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| —adj , mealier, mealiest | |
| 1. | resembling meal; powdery |
| 2. | containing or consisting of meal or grain |
| 3. | sprinkled or covered with meal or similar granules |
| 4. | (esp of horses) spotted; mottled |
| 5. | pale in complexion |
| 6. | short for mealy-mouthed |
| 'mealiness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
But all this came after days of mealy-mouthed denial and obfuscation.
He didn't offer a careful, non-controversial mealy-mouthed defense of civil unions.
She was mealy-mouthed, awkward, clearly second string.
Talk about a mealy-mouthed, tongue-twisting article that talks out of both sides of its mouth simultaneously.
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