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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Pecksniffian, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, abject, adulatory, affected, backscratching, beggarly, bland, blandishing, blarneying, bootlicking, buttery, cajoling, canting, casuistic, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, dishonest, disingenuous, empty, fair-spoken, false, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, footlicking, fulsome, goody, goody-goody, groveling, gushing, hangdog, holier-than-thou, hollow, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, hypocritic, hypocritical, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating, jesuitic, obeisant, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, parasitic, pharisaic, pharisean, pietistic, pious, prostrate, sanctified, sanctimonious, self-righteous, simon-pure, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, sniveling, soapy, soft-soaping, sponging, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, tongue in cheek, truckling, uncandid, unctuous, unfrank, unserious, wheedling
2. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ambiguous, artful, circumlocutory, deceitful, equivocal, equivocating, euphemistic, hesitant, hypocritical, indirect, mincing, oily, periphrastic, reluctant, reticent, roundabout, slick, unctuous, vague
Dictionary Results for mealymouthed:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
mealymouthed
    adj 1: hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly
           as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed
           politician" [syn: mealymouthed, mealy-mouthed]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mealy-mouthed \Meal"y-mouthed`\, a.
   Using soft words; not straightforward; plausible; affectedly
   or timidly delicate of speech; speaking deviously; unwilling
   to tell the truth in plain language. Opposite of frank or
   blunt. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." --Tennyson.
   [1913 Webster]

         She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks
         so plain.                                --L'Estrange.
   [1913 Webster] -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.
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