double-tongued
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of double-tongued
1350–1400; Middle English dowble tungid
Example Sentences
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At 12:50, track trumpeter Jay Cohen double-tongued the usual call to arms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2020
Some saw an even more sinister subtext to Boies' opening statement and the incorporeal, larger-than-life double-tongued creature he described as luring unwitting followers to his crusade for world domination.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Virtue's blissful paths away The double-tongued are sure to stray; Good is a forth-right journey still, And mazy paths but lead to ill.
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland
Do they have long skirts and—" "Hold up, you double-tongued chatterbox!" he interrupted; "I can't answer forty questions at once.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
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