| 单词 | low-tongued |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslow-tongued low-tongued adj. (a) = low-voiced adj.; (b) that speaks in a lewd or vulgar manner. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. iii. 12 Didst heare her speake? Is she shrill tongu'd or low? View more context for this quotation 1822 G. Croly Let. 29 Mar. in Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Oct. (1950) 636/3 There are a dozen literary ruffians, who deserve your lash & can bear it through mere callousness—mean, malignant, low-lived & low-tongued. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Adeline in Poems 72 Doth the lowtongued Orient Wander from the side o' the morn. 1920 E. M. Bounds Purpose in Prayer ix. 102 Prayer may be low-tongued, but it cannot be cold-tongued. 2011 V. Cunningham Victorian Poetry Now iii. 104 ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’, the dramatic monologue of the low-tongued, fleshly-minded outsider artist-monk. < as lemmas |
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