(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.
Meaty
Definition:
(a.) Abounding in meat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
(2) On average, monosodium glutamate and seltzer, which mongrel dogs do not normally encounter in their diets, produced lower gastric acid secretion and pancreatic polypeptide release than sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and meaty tastes.
(3) Each prominent character has been given meaty storylines to gorge on, and while some haven’t panned out quite as well as others (Jimmy’s sideline as a sex worker was introduced and wisely dropped, as was an ill-advised plot-strand about drug-induced rape), the web of intrigue that’s been constructed so far doesn’t have any major weaknesses in it at all.
(4) Nordestinos brought their hearty, meaty peasant cuisine with them, and one former factory worker, Jose Oliveira de Almeid, called simply Seu Ze, opened a small restaurant called Mocotó in the working-class suburb of Villa Medeiros.
(5) 9.47pm GMT 88 min: … but it's flicked up and lands safely in the comfortingly meaty hands of Lloris.
(6) There are 30 new weapons, including a new class of marksman rifles; Perks now have a points system, allowing you to buy several weaker options or opt for one or two really meaty specials.
(7) 2.37pm BST 31 mins Ivanovic has just stuck a meaty challenge in on Suárez.
(8) Nick Clegg plans to devote a meaty chunk of his leader's speech to listing all the things he has blocked the Tories from doing.
(9) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
(10) Rory Fallon rises highest and heads clear with a mighty meaty meeting of forehead and Jabulani.
(11) We report on 2 unrelated boys with a distinctive facial appearance of microtia, atretic external auditory meati, small mandible, and microstomia, who also have a skeletal dysplasia, microcephaly, and joint contractures.
(12) Photograph: Susi Smither A meaty, warming robust meal to get you through the last of the cold spring days.
(13) They are characterised by psychomotor retardation, short stature, narrowing of the external auditory meati and abnormalities of the digits.
(14) Ordering a procession of dishes to share over a long afternoon's grazing is the perfect way to go here: try crunchy cubes of fried tapioca with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce, and out-of-this-world torresmo (meaty, homemade pork scratchings, £1.30).
(15) She went for her shots, meaty, buffeting groundstrokes, right from the start and knocked Williams out of her normally commanding stride.
(16) He's a man of mellowness, not ego – far from bitter at the lack of meaty roles, just gently getting on with what he's offered.
(17) And there were a couple of meaty reforms – raising the personal tax allowance; cutting corporation tax.
(18) Miliband's more detailed thoughts on reforming company laws are a little more meaty, but still sketch no more than the first few marks on a blank sheet.
(19) Men in professional kitchens all over the world, whether they are cooking big, meaty dishes, or tweezering edible micro flowers on to oysters, salivate over getting a dish just so, and appear to take it far more seriously than most female professional chefs and cooks.
(20) Steven Gerrard intervenes and retrieves possession for Liverpool with a meaty challenge.