How to Use mealy in a Sentence

mealy

adjective

• For starters, the game's weapons start out feeling quite mealy-mouthed.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2017
• White mealy bug, green soft scales and tiny mites are just a few of the pest that may make your plant a home.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Soft, mealy apples brown a lot faster, and the same thing is true with potatoes.
  — Tarah Knaresboro, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2015
• The mealy paste that comes next to the watery tabbouleh on a mezze plate serves its purpose.
  — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 15 June 2018
• This kind of mealy-mouthed writing is Williamson’s bread-and-butter.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 7 Apr. 2018
• Many peaches are mealy and bland, picked too early and shipped for miles and miles, just to sit on grocery store shelves.
  — Kate Heddings, Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• The main two types of potatoes are mealy and waxy, which have high and low starch contents, respectively.
  — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
• So don’t be so infarnal mealy-mouthed, with your mock modesty.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• No mealy pale cukes or shriveled tomatoes hidden by heavy sauces here.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2021
• Southerners would rather eat a lightning bug than a mushy, mealy tomato.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Southerners would rather eat a lightning bug than a mushy, mealy tomato.
  — Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2017
• No longer should that industry be given a get-out-of-jail-free card on its mealy-mouthed greenwashing.
  — Lydia Millet, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020
• The main insect culprits include mealy bugs — waxy, soft-bodied scale insects that suck plant juices.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
• Nevermind the fruit underneath is mealy and bland—the exterior is cute, and cute sells.
  — Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
• The specific scenarios ran the gamut from biting into a mealy apple to seeing mites in a child’s hair.
  — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 5 June 2018
• The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were seen by many as a mistake, but most other candidates still defended at least on them, if often in mealy-mouthed terms.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
• Pears that are allowed to become too mature or to ripen on the tree develop a coarse, mealy texture and often have core breakdown.
  — oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2021
• Most of the larger tomatoes available in grocery stores have an insipid flavor and mealy texture.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
• Although the fries are reasonably crisp, their insides are mealy and bland in a way that fresh-cut potatoes almost certainly would not be.
  — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
• Creaminess, granted by the mealy texture of russet potatoes, is important; and the outside should be taut and golden.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2022
• Have in hand five or six prewritten questions, crafted to force a real answer and not mealy-mouthed political-speak?
  — Ronald J. Hansen, azcentral, 27 Apr. 2017
• Salvias There are several, but the most common blue annual types are selections of Salvia farinacea, mealy cup sage.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 28 June 2018
• These tiny tomatoes will be sweet and juicy any time of year, unlike larger out-of-season varieties like beefsteak, which can have a mealy texture out of season.
  — Casey Barber, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
• Those mealy words are a sure sign of trouble, the kind that lets politicos and policy makers kick out an idea without offering a solution.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
• Peaches, nectarines, and apricots will become mealy if left in the refrigerator too long so, once ripe, use within 3-7 days.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 2 June 2021
• The sauce has a slight bitterness but good tomato flavor and a slightly mealy, uniform consistency.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
• This was not the best of times, but a season of justified outrage, of mealy-mouthed apology, of communicative disarray.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• All that remains is more bumbling, mealy-mouthed corporate decision-making that will only further enrage the left and right alike.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 5 May 2021
• Yet on Twitter, there is only mealy-mouthed dithering over free speech, followed by haphazard censorship and the inevitable apologies.
  — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 1 June 2018
• Do any of these jokers have an inkling of how posterity will view this week’s videos of them skulking away from reporters in the Capitol’s corridors or making mealy-mouth statements while staring down at the floor?
  — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 16 May 2018

Last Updated: 2 Aug 2024