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. |