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What does mealy-mouthed mean?

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Adjective
  1. prone to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright
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Rebecca is supposed to have her faults, such as being weak and mealy-mouthed.
His statement on this topic was so this-worldly and mealy-mouthed that it didn't sound like him at all.
How about his mealy-mouthed grandson, who seems like he is swallowing his words in asthmatic whelps?
As for all the timid, mealy-mouthed incrementalists, Porter has only contempt for that kind of thinking.
Once again, those pusillanimous, patronising, mealy-mouthed lectionary compilers have excelled themselves.
Twenty-five years later, he wrote a mealy-mouthed not-quite apology for his rhetoric.

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