mealy
Origin of mealy
1Other words from mealy
- meal·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby mealy
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How to use mealy in a sentence
This is a story about camouflage, but forget mud-blob brown, mealy beige and somber green.
Mirror beetles’ shiny bodies may not act as camouflage after all | Susan Milius | March 9, 2022 | Science NewsThere is no neutral perspective here as Ovechkin’s mealy-mouthed explanation suggested.
Alex Ovechkin’s voice is powerful. His comments on Ukraine were a missed opportunity. | Kevin Blackistone | February 27, 2022 | Washington PostThere are even more “most underrated” if you qualified it with “probably,” the quintessential mealy-mouthed touch.
Gene Weingarten: Take me out to the Old. Word. Game. | Gene Weingarten | May 6, 2021 | Washington PostOld-shell lobsters can survive international shipping, but the meat is usually mealy and course.
My Big, Buttery Lobster Roll Rumble: We Came, We Clawed, We Conquered | Scott Bixby | June 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey withdrew their slap on the wrist, while citing various mealy mouthed reasons.
A&E Ducks for Cover by Forgiving Phil Robertson | Michael Musto | December 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
As for all the timid, mealy-mouthed incrementalists, Porter has only contempt for that kind of thinking.
Janet Folger Porter, Abortion Warrior, on Her Heartbeat Crusade | Michelle Cottle | July 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTwenty-five years later, he wrote a mealy-mouthed not-quite apology for his rhetoric.
Al Sharpton’s Long Bill of Goods, From Tawana Brawley to Primetime | Stuart Stevens | June 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAppointing a task force on guns seems a little mealy-mouthed to me.
"It's no use being mealy-mouthed over this thing, Pete," he grated in that saw-mill voice of his.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeWhen boiled in water the root separates into fibres, and is rather waxy, but when laid in hot ashes it becomes mealy.
The skin is yellow, the fruit of a palish red, and rather mealy.
Spent the evening in trying cooking experiments with mealy flour and some Neave's Food, which one of us had.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V. | Erskine ChildersIt was very good, and was followed by meat fried in mealy crumbs, and later on, some mealy porridge and Mellin mixed.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V. | Erskine Childers
British Dictionary definitions for mealy
/ (ˈmiːlɪ) /
resembling meal; powdery
containing or consisting of meal or grain
sprinkled or covered with meal or similar granules
(esp of horses) spotted; mottled
pale in complexion
short for mealy-mouthed
Derived forms of mealy
- mealiness, noun
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