smooth-tongued
Example Sentences
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Her story is told in a series of songs interspersed by a few unhinged rants and smooth-tongued chapter narrations.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021
Sometimes he’s conducting poetry workshops; sometimes he’s dealing with cultural attachés or smooth-tongued diplomats; sometimes he’s face to face with refugees in camps.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2018
He found that squads of oily, smooth-tongued salesmen had combed Cleveland with tales of a great shortage of burial ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
Handa engineered a meeting with the founder of the new religion, moonfaced Zenjiro Nagumo, a sleek, smooth-tongued evangelist who spiced his exhortations with crisp English phrases, Mohammedan aphorisms and quotations from the Buddhist sutras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slick, slik, adj. smooth: smooth-tongued: dexterous in movement or action.—adv. in a smooth manner, deftly.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
