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tongue tied

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It is amazing how tongue-tied they get when you present them with irrefutable information.

Fashion seems to leave some accomplished women tongue-tied or tripping over their own words.

Questioned about how he selects or rejects his parts, though, Gosling can get a bit tongue tied.

He lost track of his stump speech and was momentarily tongue-tied.

In fact, the governor does not need much more than a ballot line from the aimless, tongue-tied, villain-rich GOP.

At this impudent and barefaced falsehood, the agent was tongue-tied, but he turned to Hank.

She was unwilling to speak; she wanted to make Frederick understand what kind of person Mr. Thornton was—but she was tongue-tied.

For fear of getting tongue-tied again, I set right in, with a steady stream of talk.

He felt tongue-tied, more than usually awkward, terribly and shamefully nervous.

Even though I'd told the story three times that night, I found myself tongue-tied.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tongue-tied, such as: amazed, astounded, dazed, dumbfounded, garbled, and mute.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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