Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Speaking sweetly, softly, or winningly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive.
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- adjective
Sweet -speaking ;persuasive ;seductive .
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Examples
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The cast includes a seasoned drunk, a honey-tongued scandalmonger, a veteran who can never quite synchronise lines and moves, and a fretful worrier anxiously seeking the motivation for every piece of comic business.
Noises Off - review 2011
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The official use of GM crops was most likely a panic reaction to the real threat of starvation, governments desparately accepting a magic silver bullet sold by honey-tongued agribusiness moguls.
Cheeseburger Gothic » First Discussion thread for After America. 2010
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She sounded surprised, either at the fact or that she was giving it voice: Gilbert had gotten under the skin of the honey-tongued tigress.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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I don't disagree, I just think the honey-tongued are inspired by those with a gut full of bile.
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He was courteous, honey-tongued — an adept in fascinating arts.
The Last Man 2003
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Francis Meres said (in 1598), "the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous & honey-tongued Shakespeare," and "as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins: so Shakespeare among the English."
Whose Shakespeare? Bryan, Charles 1990
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At thirty, however, I'd revolted: wild horses couldn't have dragged me to witness his wedding to the sharp-eyed honey-tongued Moira, his fifth choice.
Hot Money Francis, Dick 1987
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It is a perpetual delight to see Filmer put down his _Daily E.press_ and with the veins bulging out from his forehead say, "That accurate and careful financier who has so immeasurably raised the status of the Chancellorship of the E.chequer"; or to hear Chalmers remark, "Sad would it be if that most honey-tongued and softhearted of politicians, dear F.E. SMITH, should have his life ended by a British bayonet."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 Various
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Crac_, a native of the land of white-liars and honey-tongued gentlemen
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In "Venus and Adonis", honey-tongued Shakespeare writes of a
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