Meal"y-mouthed` (?), a.
Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
"
Mealy-mouthed philanthropies."
Tennyson.
She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain.
L'Estrange.
-- Meal"y-mouth`ness (#), n.
© Webster 1913.