1. Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.

2. What a bunch of hypocritical mealy-mouthed people!

3. Don't be so mealy-mouthed, Bernice told herself.

4. Don't accept mealy-mouthed half-baked editorial mush that says otherwise.

5. Yes, she is so mealy-mouthed.

6. He added: "I refuse to accept this mealy-mouthed apology.

7. Melanie Hamilton. She's a pale-faced mealy-mouthed ninny and I hate her.

8. Mumbling them around your gums in a mealy-mouthed fashion and hoping they'll go away will get you nowhere.

9. He added: "I refuse to accept this mealy-mouthed apology. I want a front page retraction – due prominence – in next week's Sunday Times."

10. He repeated that he did not intend to be mealy-mouthed with the country's leaders.

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11. The mystery is why Obama chose to make gay marriage the subject of the worst, least sincere, and most mealy-mouthed moment of his 2008 Presidential campaign.

12. You'd rather live with that little fool who can't open her mouth except to say "yes" or "no" and raise a pastel of mealy-mouthed brats just like her.

13. You'd rather live with that silly fool who can't speak except to say "yes" and "no" and raise a passel of mealy-mouthed brats just like her.

14. You'd rather live with that silly little fool who can't open her mouth except to say "yes", "no", and raise a houseful of mealy-mouthed brats just like her!

15. Sex is probably the most popular pastime in the history of life on Earth — which makes it all the more ridiculous that so many of us have such a mealy-mouthed way of talking about it.

16. Individual voices are brave. But Russia's intelligentsia, which could be much freer than in the bad old days, is still mealy-mouthed.