Smooth-tongued
adj
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 glib; able to flatter, seduce, and persuade with words.
"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."
Adjective
- 1 artfully persuasive in speech wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
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