tongued
Britishadjective
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having a tongue or tongues
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( in combination )
long-tongued
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(in combination) having a manner of speech as specified
sharp-tongued
Example Sentences
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Folktales and fairy tales since the Middle Ages have vilified the wolf as “the Devil, red tongued, sulfur breathed, and yellow eyed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Some tongued plugs of tobacco and munched on day-old Domino’s Pizza.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2019
And witnessing that kind of droopy tongued joy has a way of rubbing off, and a way of making all those dog park visits and day care bills worth it.
From The Verge ● Nov. 8, 2015
Stoll, who was so good in the first season of House of Cards, plays the villain Yellow Jacket and Michael Douglas plays an aging, sharp tongued Hank Pym.
From Forbes ● Jul. 27, 2014
For his part, Verdi spoke nothing but praise about his acid- tongued contemporary, writing that Tristan und Isolde was ‘one of the finest creations that has ever issued from a human mind’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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