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mealy

/mee-lee/US // ˈmi li //UK // (ˈmiːlɪ) //

蛤蚧,蚧壳虫,粉碎,蛤蜊

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    meal·i·er, meal·i·est.

    • : having the qualities of meal; powdery; soft, dry, and crumbly: mealy potatoes; a mealy stone.
    • : of or containing meal; farinaceous: baked fish with a mealy crust.
    • : covered with or as if with meal or powder: flowers mealy with their pollen.
    • : flecked as if with meal; spotty: horses with mealy hides.
    • : pale; sallow: a mealy complexion.
    • : mealy-mouthed.

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Examples

  • 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.