mellifluous

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Liberal - mellifluous, sing-songy, whiny, high-pitched.

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  1. adjective Flowing with sweetness or honey.
  2. adjective Smooth and sweet: "polite and cordial, with a mellifluous, well-educated voice” (H.W. Crocker III).

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  • The second-most is mellifluous, and the bronze goes to loquacious.
  • His voice was soft, mellifluous, and menacing No, of course not. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 06 - June 2001
  • The oddest thing about them was that such lumpish beings had mellifluous, birdlike voices. —  EBSCOhost
  • The Russian language is indeed more mellifluous, more lingering, more caressing, fuller of sighs than the Polish. —  Life of Chopin
  • “What fight?” There was relish in her mellifluous, husky words. —  Paid and Loving Eyes - Lovejoy - Jonathan Gash
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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin mellifluus : Latin mel, mell-, honey; see melit- in Indo-European roots + Latin -fluus, flowing; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French mellifleux, also melliflu, melleflu, French melliflue = Spanish melífluo = Portuguese Italian mellifluo, from Late Latin mellifluus, flowing with honey, from Latin mel (mell-), honey, + fluere, flow.
 

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