The sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare.
Robin, a sharp-tongued New Yorker, was working for a magazine aimed at woman issues as an assistant editor. Frank was Robin's two-day old boyfriend.
After Simon Cowell, the acid-tongued host of the television show "American Idol," called one singer "insipid," Merriam-Webster noticed a dramatic spike in the number of lookups for the word.
I hate that slimy (-tongued) fellow.
Everyone knows that the boss's wife is sharp-tongued, and no one dares provoke her.
"We shall go on to the end," he said defiantly, in tones plummy and, on the surviving recordings, surprisingly thick-tongued.
He would take off his hat, and would silence the light-tongued and the vicious in her presence--much as the Irish keeper of a Bowery hall will humble himself before a Sister of Mercy, and pay toll to charity with a willing and reverent hand.
As their creation expands beyond their wildest dreams, they are courted by silver-tongued venture capitalists.
My sister is smooth-tongued. She likes to call me "sister", call my dad "daddy", call my mom "mummy". She often call us many times a day.
Tom's friend said he was a double-tongued liar.
THEY have been improbable soul-mates, the silver-tongued British barrister and the drawling Republican from Texas.
Nor can I, like that fluent sweet tongued Greek.
Who of my many 6 slanderers and 7 snake-tongued enemies had ever 8 reproached me that I am destined to play the role of chief lover in a second-class theater?
The early Chinese conquerors called them barbarians, for they drilled their teeth and went barefoot; a poet, despising their sharp voices, dubbed them shrike-tongued.
He had a sharp-tongued, nagging stepmother.
In the lab, scientists noticed that Pallas's long-tongued bats excelled at finding hollow hemisphere shapes hidden among artificial leaves.
Marketplace: do not have the glib-tongued legend middle mouth, only do not have a monograph heart.
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