- a variation of honeyed.
honied
Americanadjective
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
The words, in Laura's most honied tones, were wafted back as the pair walked towards the house.
From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela
The evening sounds are very charming— “The milk that bubbled in the pail, And buzzings of the honied hours,” when the bees were gathering their last stores of the day.
From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Gatty, Alfred, Mrs.
“But, dear Maria Alexandrovna,” she said, in the sweetest honied tones, “perhaps it may be that it really was so, as your husband suggests, and that you are actually under a strange delusion?”
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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