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ill-tongued, a.|ˈɪlˈtʌŋd|
[f. ill a. + tongue n. + -ed2.]
Having an evil or malicious tongue; speaking evil; slanderous; using bad language.
a1300E.E. Psalter cxxxix. 12 [cxl. 11] Man il-tunged, ai spekand. a1536Calisto & Melib. B ij a, A yll tongyd wrech, wyll ye not see? 1693Congreve in Dryden's Juvenal xi. Note vii, Thersites. An Impudent, Deformed, Ill-Tongu'd Fellow. 1859Cornwallis New World I. 215 The most ill-tongued ruffians that ever escaped from a penal settlement. |