- a variation of honeyed.
honied
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adjective
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Within hours Columbia Artists' Vice-President William Judd was on the transatlantic phone with honied words.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I, listening, Found not the salt of the whispers of my girl, Murmur of confused colors, as we lay near sleep; Little wise words and little witty words, Wanton as water, honied with eagerness.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
And as she looked and listened to his sweet and honied sentences, she felt that all around would darken down to naked waste without his society.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
But in my dreams,—in honied sleep,— 'Tis I to smile, and she to weep!
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay
I cannot count the friends that broke Their faith, tho' honied words they spoke; In whom no aid I found, and made The Devil welcome to their aid.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
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