(superl.) Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.
(superl.) Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect.
Example Sentences:
(1) I will be mealy-mouthed, he repeats, according to translation by my colleague Saeed Kamili Dehghan.
(2) Malcolm Turnbull refuses to denounce Trump's travel ban Read more Facebook Twitter Pinterest Turnbull: ‘When I have frank advice to give an American president, I give it privately’ This is not the time for the Australian government to offer mealy-mouthed platitudes about not commenting on the policies of other countries.
(3) No mealy-mouthed, "I might have done it a little bit" teary-eyed confessions on Oprah.
(4) It is mealy mouthed, offensive and lacking in any acknowledgment of the huge abuse of power and harm caused to my clients".
(5) Cue a costly whizz-bang extravaganza of CG-powered set pieces foreshadowed with the odd slab of mealy cod philosophy.
(6) Labour's position holds the most obvious risks: it will take subtle speech-writing and iron discipline in television interviews for Ed Balls and Mr Miliband not to sound either defensive about their own criticisms of austerity, or mealy-mouthed about the modest recovery Britain is at last enjoying.
(7) Representations of acute current issues facing the queer community are thinner on the ground – don't hold your breath for a studio picture about the murder of a homeless teenage trans sex worker – but let's not be mealy-mouthed.
(8) Down the road at Bradbury's butchers, whose shelves heave with haggis, beef links, mealie puddings and clootie dumplings, a few customers have begun to discuss the break-up of the union.
(9) The Mail, uncharacteristically cowed, removed the story from its website and, more characteristically, issued a mealy-mouthed apology, insisting the story was published "in good faith" and was written by a writer who has "strong connections with senior members of the Lebanese community".
(10) If and when he has made apologies, they are often delivered too late and are mealy-mouthed Ken Livingstone appears incapable of contrition .
(11) If and when he has made apologies, they are often delivered too late and are mealy-mouthed, and the worst of all apologies is the one that takes no responsibility for their actions .
(12) But given the film-maker clearly enjoys the fascination that surrounds his work, his decision does seem a little mealy-mouthed.
(13) When the DNA of mealy bugs carrying B chromosomes (+B:DNA( was compared to the DNA of individuals not possessing Bs (-B:DNA), no significant differences were found using isopycnic centrifugations in CsCl or thermal denaturation analyses.
(14) – ebb and surge through a once-in-a-lifetime cast (Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, Richard Widmark) in which the doctors are often nuttier than the patients; or Tea And Sympathy, a halting, mealy-mouthed and profoundly dated attempt to deal, however obliquely, with the taboo of homosexuality, here dubbed "unmanliness".
(15) The arms exports to Israel must stop.” In a further interview with Channel 4 News, Warsi suggested Cameron had been “mealy-mouthed” over his refusal to say Israel’s actions had been disproportionate.
(16) Stocks of mealie meal are needed for families until the next harvest.
(17) Indiana governor on defensive over religious law some see as anti-gay Read more The real political mistake was the strength of the RFRA in the first place: rather than a mealy-mouthed statutory reminder of the constitutional right to religion without government interference to placate a loud minority, it boldly delineates the mechanisms of unaccountable discrimination on a citizen-by-citizen basis and dangerously reminds the rest of us of the control that Christian bigots have had over American society from day one until the present.
(18) She says some “became activists in the leadership contest ... (and) that’s not their job as journalists.” She also used the conversation with Martin to deliver a hard flick at radio talkback host Alan Jones – the broadcaster who declared Gillard’s father had “died of shame.” Gillard says Jones delivered only a “mealy mouthed apology” for the infelicitous outburst, and he only delivered that because of commercial pressure.
(19) These issues are far too serious for us to have been mealy-mouthed and for us to be dragging our heels.” Warsi was known to have been unhappy with Cameron’s failure to unequivocally condemn Israel’s incursion into Gaza or the mounting death toll.
(20) All right, some of us have banged on for decades about this horrid, mealy-mouthed, catch-all word, hoping to limit its use.
Measly
Definition:
(a.) Infected with measles.
(a.) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.
Example Sentences:
(1) No wonder some older persons are drinking more than the permitted amount, which seems rather measly anyway.
(2) Really I suspect I’d be bored stiff, and anyway, like many people my age, I couldn’t afford it because my pension – combined state and measly private one – is too small.
(3) After shutting out San Francisco, allowing a measly four hits and striking out seven, the free agent to be politely fended off comparisons to Sandy Koufax , who was dramatically summoned from the bullpen by manager Don Mattingly to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
(4) We are the largest per capita emitter of carbon pollution of any developed country and the Turnbull government’s measly reduction targets will keep it that way.” But Frank Jotzo, associate professor at the Australian National University’s Crawford School, said while Australia’s financial contribution could be larger, the move signalled a much more positive approach to the Paris negotiations by the Coalition .
(5) The candleholder, by contrast, produced a ratings drop of a measly three points.
(6) Clearly, the greatest thing on TV right now is Channel 4's Homeland ( Sun, 9pm ), a strong acquisition, currently being fed to the UK in measly weekly ad-filled 45-minute morsels.
(7) The measly amount is not topped up with housing benefit, because that does not exist.
(8) And Labour delivered 63% of its 2015 vote to remain , not that much lower than the Liberal Democrats’ 70%, and way above the Conservatives’ measly 42%.
(9) Average pay among the top tenth of earners has increased by 1.8% over the past year, to £26.75 an hour, while the bottom tenth saw a measly 0.1% rise, to £7.01.
(10) Not that you care, NatWest, but one machine more, and one cashier less, and I'm warning you, I'm taking my account and measly savings elsewhere.
(11) Liverpool’s glaring weakness was in attack last season, where their recognised strikers Daniel Sturridge, Lambert, Balotelli and Fabio Borini produced a measly eight Premier League goals combined.
(12) Paternity leave is paid at a measly £136 a week – £100 less than a full-time job on minimum wage – and the government's recent shared parental leave is so complicated and filled with loopholes that it is expected that only 4% of dads will take it up.
(13) "Over the last year the number of savings accounts that beat inflation for basic rate taxpayers has dropped successively from 91 to a measly five today.
(14) Last year's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 got a measly 25% "rotten" rating on the review aggregator site rottentomatoes.com .
(15) He has left One Direction’s channel , with its measly 10 million subscribers, for dust.
(16) Every conceivable lever has been pulled to get growth going again – interest rates at 0.5%, a budget deficit worth 11% of national output, and £200bn of quantitative easing – yet the economy managed to grow by just a measly 0.2%.
(17) He introduces me to a young Unite activist who works in a Lloyds Bank call centre, and has managed to recruit most of its workforce, as well as take issue with a measly pay offer.
(18) In September 2007, Hayward took over at BP following a "dreadful" quarter: profits had slumped 12%, to a measly $5.3bn.
(19) At this year’s general election, turnout among the over-65s was 78%, as against a measly 43% for 18-24 year olds.
(20) Many had written off the 22-year-old after an injury-disrupted first season at Spurs in which he managed a measly three league starts.