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
Is not pun from Punic? punica fides: the very quint-essential quiddity of bad faith: double-visaged: double-tongued.
From Maid Marian by Peacock, Thomas Love
Its double-tongued fastener was twisted far awry, as if it had been wrenched away by violence.
From Tharon of Lost Valley by Johnson, Frank Tenney
The argument in behalf of a double standard is double-tongued, when in fact nothing is intended, or can be the outcome, but a single silver standard.
From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander
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