smooth-tongued
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of smooth-tongued
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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Her story is told in a series of songs interspersed by a few unhinged rants and smooth-tongued chapter narrations.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
Sometimes he’s conducting poetry workshops; sometimes he’s dealing with cultural attachés or smooth-tongued diplomats; sometimes he’s face to face with refugees in camps.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2018
Handa engineered a meeting with the founder of the new religion, moonfaced Zenjiro Nagumo, a sleek, smooth-tongued evangelist who spiced his exhortations with crisp English phrases, Mohammedan aphorisms and quotations from the Buddhist sutras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Glamour features a columnist anonymously known as Jake, a job that has changed hands many times and is now held down by a smooth-tongued advertising man in his early 30s.
From Time Magazine Archive
So he had been fooled by this smooth-tongued, fair-faced trash; and all his plans and schemes, and hungry longings and golden expectations, were to crumble into dust before treachery such as this!
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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