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mealy-mouthed
adjective
disapprovinguk /ˌmiː.liˈmaʊðd/ us /ˌmiː.liˈmaʊðd/
not brave enough to say what you mean directly and honestly: 不直爽的，说话转弯抹角的
mealy-mouthed excuses婉转的借口
a mealy-mouthed spokesperson说话转弯抹角的发言人
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
bury the ledeidiom
candy coat
candy coating
candy-coated
circumlocution
circumlocutory
f-bomb
get on to/onto something
glancingly
gloss over something
go off on a tangentidiom
implicit
obscure
parry
prevaricate
stray
tangent
tiptoe around something/someone
unexpressed
unvoiced
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