Meaning of flannel-mouthed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Possessing, characterized by, or in the manner of speaking of a flannelmouth.
2. Smooth and persuasive in speech, especially in order to deceive or manipulate.
3. Unclear, muffled, or halting in speech.

Examples

“I went to her, sat close beside her and tried snuggling up a little. It worked. . . . "I can get them," I said just as flannel-mouthed as ever I could, like all of us talked to her now.”

“[N]ot only does Kerry have a flannel-mouthed inability to utter a simple sentence, but his orotundities also serve to reinforce the notion that the Senator from Massachusetts is a patrician stiff, too smug to speak in a manner decipherable by ordinary Americans.”

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