smooth-tongued

• “Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew”

  Yes Nancy, apparently we did have to pass the bill to learn what’s in it

• “Mona, if she thought about it, though she didn't often because of the regret it caused her, could blame Joanie's progression from adolescent rebellion to active dislike on the advent in the local amateur dramatic society of a certain plump self-satisfied thirty-year-old smooth-tongued Peregrine Vine, assistant to auctioneers of antiques and fine arts.”

  Fictionaut: The Elvis Latte

• “This shrewd, smooth-tongued politico from Illinois conveyed to the gilded parasites exactly what they wanted to find out as well.”

  HOPE TERMINATED

• ““I know not on what we could ground any,” said the smooth-tongued Conrade, “unless it were that the King of England carries off from his poor brothers of the war all the fame which they might have hoped to gain in the expedition.””

  The Talisman

• “Its weapons were smooth-tongued lies spoken into microphones and printed on the front pages of America's newspapers....”

  Carrying A Grudge

• “Perhaps it would be useful for some Lit Crit people to deconstruct this fragment from Kipling: Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew”

  Archive 2007-10-01

• “While smooth-tongued telemarketers shilling Nigerian oil shares are easy to blow off, wide-eyed neighborhood kids selling Girl Scout cookies will always get you running for your wallet.”

  Simon & Schuster: Saving Face

• “It makes the place the perfect breeding ground for potential victims of a smooth-tongued pervert on the phone.”

  Rape and Imprisonment By Proxy At McDonalds

• ““They will endure all, ere they would accept the protection of such a smooth-tongued hypocrite,” answered the Major indignantly;”

  Old Mortality

• “Our readers may recollect a certain smooth-tongued, lank-haired, buckram-suited, Scottish scrivener, who, in the earlier part of this history, appeared in the character of a protege of George Heriot.”

  The Fortunes of Nigel

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