Thesaurus / tongue-lashing

tongue-lashing

synonyms for tongue-lashing

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“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.

Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.

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If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.

One of Yung Pak's favourite toys was a wooden jumping-jack with a pasteboard tongue.

He was given no reply save a muttered curse, a command to hold his tongue, and an angry tug at his tied arms.

He was a pretty bright sort, that same Goodell, quick-witted, nimble of tongue above the average Englishman.

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He was Gascon to the backbone, and his tongue too often betrayed his most secret and his most transient thoughts.

And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers shall speak readily and plain.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985