说话转弯抹角的, 不必开门见山说的, 说话时过分注意选择字眼的, 说话不真诚的
s hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy
词型变化:名词复数形式 : mealy-moutheds

mealy-mouthed的用法和样例:

例句

  1. Don't be so mealy-mouthed, say what you mean!别这麽绕弯子了,有话直说吧!
【近义词】

263. I won't believe it until I see it W: I heard that the river has frozen. M: I won't believe it until I see it. W: Then go and have a look. M: I heard that she was chosen to shoot a commercial. W: I won't believe it until I see it. M: It seems to

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a faint hope
activity-based physical education curriculum
aft sidelight
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Alajja
amorphous physics
anti-money-laundering
AURPO
balkenhols
berghuis
boat reactor
brotherman
business establishments
calcanthus
center head
central point of a ruling
Chandela
chimping
cladal
collapsing wave
combustion temperature
compatible single side band
complex hyperbolic functions
condrodite (chomdrodite)
coronary circulation
correction of tidal zoning
Cynanchum otophyllum
dagel
data network with satellite
dihydroheterocodeine
Dions
drepano (orak adasi )
drop(ping)
electropneumatic interlocking device
emit light
environment pressure
euthermy
excess geometric head
exponential relation
filamentous fungus
flexible device
flick knives
geni
genus Nuytsia
Gersau
ground gradient
gustav ludwig hertzs
hereditary coproporphyria
hermitage theatre (moscow)
hyperexpanded
injury discharge
input/output multiplexing
insitiutional advertising
invariant module
jablonica p.
joint molecule
jump coupling
key encapsulation
lack of fuel oil signal lamp
leontovich
licentious criminal
line alveolonasal
LISN
long saphenous nerve (or saphenous nerve)
make a detour
mandatory message element
marine soil mechanics
medium-income
mineragraphic microscope
multilens
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objected
ovatus
peak enrichment
penetration loss
pessum
pit mouth
project retrieval
pyrrhics
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rhachi-,rhachio-
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rise in value
scales back
selling agreement
slat saw
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space surveillance
subarachnoid cistern
sundried
take minerals
tgta
thidiazuron
track laying gantry
traveling scaffolding
Tyberton
Vicia ternata
wachle
watered wine
weenier
williams-sonoma