Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted. From LearnThat.org. [ldoceonline.com]
Your half-assed, mealy-mouthed apology NOT accepted. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
You could do that Phd. on the mealy-mouthed bloke alone. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
There isn't a hignerent mug, or a mealy-mouthed mutton-faced pump. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891] Reference
He can't both be a mealy-mouthed pleaser AND a race-baiting divider. From Wordnik.com. [Obama On Wright: "This Is Not A Crackpot Church"] Reference
But one sentence later, I caught the Tribune going all mealy-mouthed. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Citizenship Rumor Peddlers Buy Ad Space In The Tribune] Reference
‘Engage’ is a mealy-mouthed word that usually means ‘follow’. '. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
The whole corporate globalization issue is really a mealy-mouthed rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2008] Reference
Another mealy-mouthed politician who was against McCain before he was for him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2008] Reference
MR. MCCURRY: Geez, he used to be -- he was pretty mealy-mouthed, too, on occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
It is not that his conservatism makes him invisible, but that he is so mealy-mouthed. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wolff: Gay Marriage: What Do We Really Mean?] Reference
All of which goes to show that a mealy-mouthed apology is worse than no apology at all. From Wordnik.com. [Boycott Sony] Reference
Wnere the mealy-mouthed BBC - aka AL Grauniad of the airwaves - says they should be drawn?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Those worried that the tough-love doctor has become a mealy-mouthed New Ager needn't fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Little One Said 'Roll Over'] Reference
"They've all been replaced by these mealy-mouthed, namby-pamby, scared-shitless executives.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hollywood Beast Roars] Reference
At least the media now have a hook to go with instead of the rest of the mealy-mouthed stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Camp: McCain's Latest Celeb Ad "Is A Lie"] Reference
Yet she (and Reid in the Senate) play the exact role the neocons want: mealy-mouthed milktoasts. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Maneuver Succeeds: House Dem Leaders Postpone FISA Vote Until Next Week] Reference
There is no sense getting anything to 'work' if it's mealy-mouthed and doesn't really do anything. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal House Dems To Back Leadership's Iraq Bill] Reference
But the mealy-mouthed lingo concealed other jealousies and resentments that have long been latent. From Wordnik.com. [A World Is Born] Reference
Tonight's mealy-mouthed "Obama is not a Muslim -- or so he says. .as far as I know" takes the cake. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Roundup] Reference
The answer is not to respond on this with some mealy-mouthed charge about how this is beneath them. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign Officially Endorses Lieberman's Claim That Obama Hasn't "Put Country First"] Reference
Instead, it seems a collective exercise in mealy-mouthed self-loathing and apologetic hand-wringing. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The (national) Democratic Party has tolerated a culture of mealy-mouthed mediocrity for far too long. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama: Reagan Changed Direction Of Country In Way Bill Clinton Didn't] Reference
It doesn't strike you that your mealy-mouthed lectures about morals will do nothing to stop this conflict?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
These forces can turn an outspoken Vietnam war hero into a tight-lipped, humorless, mealy-mouthed tree stump. From Wordnik.com. [Controlled by Control] Reference
That said, I do think they need to come back with something a lot stronger than this mealy-mouthed statement. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Hits McCain Iraq Ad As "Misleading," Uncivil] Reference
I hope she doesn ` t stay with him like all of these women, mealy-mouthed women that stay with their cheating. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2009] Reference
And he said yesterday, when we were at an event Ohio, this is not going to be one of those mealy-mouthed campaigns. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2004] Reference
If he doesn't speak them or speaks them in a mealy-mouthed way, then I think we can all say, "Thank Heaven he was not elected.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Spin Room: U.S. Supreme Court Delivers for Bush - December 13, 2000] Reference
We alarmed and shocked to hear the mealy-mouthed attempts to justify these killings by recourse to obscure legal technicalities. From Wordnik.com. [Statement ANC on the Bisho Killings] Reference
The guy is so mealy-mouthed and weak, so afraid of offending Reupublicans and red necks that he won't ever take a stand on anything. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Some Obama Advisers Worried About Message Keeping Gates Would Send] Reference
Here ` s what I know tonight: the more mealy-mouthed and wishy-washy we get on Iraq, the closer our children are to death or a prayer rug. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2006] Reference
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