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
But a double-tongued man is apparently the same as a backbiter, because a backbiter speaks with a double tongue, with one in your absence, with another in your presence.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
He was giving a very strange version of his expedition; and as I heard facts so distorted, I could not help repeating to myself the words of Auku-wonze-zee, "The Oposh-ton-ehoc is a double-tongued liar!"
From Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat
The Kansas-Nebraska act was a double-tongued statute, and the Cincinnati platform a Janus-faced banner.
From Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John George Nicolay
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