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smooth-tongued, a.
[f. smooth a. 15.]
1. Smooth or plausible in speech; using fair or flattering words; smooth-spoken.
1592Marlowe Edw. II, iv. v, Spencer..Is with that smoothe toongd scholler Baldock gone. 1603–35Breton Mad World my Masters Wks. (Grosart) II. 8/1 A very artificiall faire, sharpe-witted,..and, as I after found, smooth-tongued gentlewoman. 1684Otway Atheist iii. i, What a smooth-tongu'd little Rascal 'tis. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 253 The smooth-tongued rascal found no difficulty to insinuate himself into the place of her heart. 1829Lytton Devereux i. xiii, Those Jesuits are so smooth-tongued to women. 1864Pusey Daniel viii. 552 His once smooth-tongued friend, with whom he had taken sweet counsel.
b. Of a poet or writer: Polished, refined. rare—1.
1658Cokaine Poems 11 Here smooth-tongu'd Drayton was inspired by Mnemosynes's manifold progenie.
2. Marked or characterized by, of the nature of, plausibility or speciousness.
1761Churchill Night 162 Poems 1767 I. 68 By slavish methods must he learn to please, By smooth-tongu'd flatt'ry, that curst court-disease. 1843A. Bethune Sc. Fireside Stories 298 Almost from infancy he had been noted for smooth-tongued falsehood.
Hence smooth-tonguedness.
1737Ozell Rabelais II. 113 The smooth-tonguedness of the Adversary. |