| 单词 | soft-tongued |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft-tongued soft-tongued adj. softly spoken; (also) using flattering and persuasive speech. ΘΚΠ 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’. < as lemmas |
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