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smooth-tongued en · ADJ

Meanings

1. glib; able to flatter, seduce, and persuade with words.
   • Coleridge smiles mischievously: 'They pay smooth-tongued publishers to instil a sense of fairness and balance into proceedings.' 2012, Mark Tungate, Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara, →ISBN, page 118:
   • He kept always good clerks, he loved money, was smooth-tongued, gave good words, and seldom lost his temper. 1895, John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, Herman Teerink, The History of John Bull, →ISBN:
   • Oun readers may recollect a certain smooth-tongued, lankhaired, buckram-suited, Scottish scrivener, who, in the first chapters of this history, appeared in the character of a protégé of George Heriot. 1832, Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel: With the Author's Last Notes and Additions:

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th ปากหวาน (able to flatter with words) · fr mielleux (able to flatter with words)