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单词 soft-tongued
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soft-tongued
soft-tongued adj. softly spoken; (also) using flattering and persuasive speech.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > pleasant > soft or gentle voice > having
softc1230
soft-spoken1616
soft-tongued1660
softly-spoken1851
1660 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Mores Hominum iii. 78 Soft-tongu'd [L. molli] Hæmus such a man.
1750 Hist. Charlotte Summers II. iii. v. 68 No soft-tongued, deluding Swain interposed between her and her Duty.
1876 Bulwer-Lytton's Pausanias (ed. 2) i. iii. 59 It goes hard with my pride..to make equals of this soft-tongued race.
1992 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 25 Jan. l15 One otherwise soft-tongued observer compared the decor to ‘the cafeteria of a Chinese hospital’.
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