mealy-mouthed

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Prone to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright.
    — The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature.

词形变化

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词源

Possibly from German Mehl im Maule behalten, via Martin Luther
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