mealy-mouthed
C2CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
InformalRegister
Unwilling to state something plainly or honestly, using evasive or mincing language instead.
Critics condemned the mealy-mouthed statement for deploring the violence without naming those responsible.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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