honied
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- honiedly adverb
- unhonied adjective
Example Sentences
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Within hours Columbia Artists' Vice-President William Judd was on the transatlantic phone with honied words.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dom P�rignon 1978 At 30 years old, this has a wonderful nutty, floral concentration � round, bready, honied and multidimensional.
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 insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
I therefore resorted to my convenient friend, with whose honied words I could always qualify my self-upbraidings.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
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