"mealy-mouthed" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1849, Thoreau, A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers, page 115:",
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          "word": "mealmouth"
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          "word": "mealmouthed"
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          "sense": "not forthright",
          "word": "huichelachtig"
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          "sense": "not forthright",
          "word": "hypocrite"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "not forthright",
          "word": "mit mehligem Mund"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "not forthright",
          "word": "ausweichend"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "not forthright",
          "word": "gewunden"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "not forthright",
          "word": "sich windend"
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          "sense": "not forthright",
          "word": "köntörfalazó"
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      "word": "mealmouthed"
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      "sense": "not forthright",
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      "sense": "not forthright",
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      "sense": "not forthright",
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      "sense": "not forthright",
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      "sense": "not forthright",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "not forthright",
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      "sense": "not forthright",
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