- mealy-mouthedness
- mealy-mouthedness [-ðıd-] s Schönfärberei f, Heuchelei f, Unaufrichtigkeit f
English-german dictionary. 2013.
mealy-mouthedness
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mealy-mouthedness — mealy mouthˈedness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑meal … Useful english dictionary
mealy-mouthed — mealy mouthedly /mee lee mow thid lee, dhid , mowtht , mowdhd /, adv. mealy mouthedness, n. /mee lee mowtht , mowdhd /, adj. avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince… … Universalium
hypocrisy — n 1. false goodness, pietism, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, Tartuffery, pharisaism, Relig. formalism; cant, lip service, mouth honor; sophistry, speciousness; false profession, pretense, pretext; pretension, pretending, faking, feigning,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
insincerity — n 1. disingenuousness, uncandidness, unfrankness, mealy mouthedness; artificiality, Inf. phoniness, dissembling, dissimulation, cant, lip service, mouth honor, Inf. hokum, flattery, smooth talk; deceit fulness, dishonesty, underhandedness,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
lip service — n 1. insincerity, artificiality, disin genuousness, uncandidness, mealy mouthedness; flattery, smooth talk, mouth honor, Inf. hokum, Inf. phoniness; hypocrisy, falseheartedness, falseness, two facedness, duplicity; dissemblance, dissimulation;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
Pharisaism — n hypocrisy, insincerity, falseness, Tar tuffery, Pecksniffery; formalism, mere show, solemn mockery; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, self righteousness, religiosity, false piety, over piety, pietism, piousness; cant, mummery, mouthing, lip… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
pietism — n 1. sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, Tar tuffery, formalism, hypocrisy, pharisaism, pharisee ism; self righteousness, Inf. goody goodiness, Inf. goodiness; false piety, excessive piety, religiosity; dissimulation, feigning, dissembling;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
sanctimony — n pietism, sanctimoniousness, Tartuf fery, formalism, hypocrisy, Pharisaism, phariseeism; false piety, excessive piety, religiosity; self righteousness, Inf. goody goodiness, Inf. goodiness; cant, lip service, mouth honor, mealy mouthedness;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
