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
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
With government scholarships, bright boys would end up as smooth-tongued Oxford dons like Board of Trade President Harold Wilson.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there was a man called Brygandyne—Bob Brygandyne—Clerk of the King’s Ships, a little, smooth, bustling atomy, as clever as a woman to get work done for nothin’—a won’erful smooth-tongued pleader.
From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard
