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mealy

adjective as in powdery

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This is a story about camouflage, but forget mud-blob brown, mealy beige and somber green.

There is no neutral perspective here as Ovechkin’s mealy-mouthed explanation suggested.

There are even more “most underrated” if you qualified it with “probably,” the quintessential mealy-mouthed touch.

Old-shell lobsters can survive international shipping, but the meat is usually mealy and course.

They withdrew their slap on the wrist, while citing various mealy mouthed reasons.

As for all the timid, mealy-mouthed incrementalists, Porter has only contempt for that kind of thinking.

Twenty-five years later, he wrote a mealy-mouthed not-quite apology for his rhetoric.

Appointing 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.

When 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.

It was very good, and was followed by meat fried in mealy crumbs, and later on, some mealy porridge and Mellin mixed.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mealy, such as: crumbly, farinaceous, friable, grainy, and gritty.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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