Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The song-sparrow of the United States, Melospiza fasciata or melodia.
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- noun idiomatic The
trait of beingclever at speaking, often in adeceitful way.
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Examples
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His silver-tongue and empty promises reveal his true nature.
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Indeed, Huckabee has a silver-tongue…why is it that a Huckabee can be so smooth facing a television camera, and seem so likeable to the American people, when he has this dark side?
Huckabee’s Choice Words for Romney - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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A languishing silver-tongue that adores the sound of his own voice.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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For he was the genuine silver-tongue, the sentences flowing from his mouth as smooth as butter and as neatly dovetailed as a parquet floor.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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It could not be because I had a silver-tongue, for I read in the local newspaper one day when I had been lecturing in the western part of the state that a voluble German with a voice like a squeaky cellar-door had been in town.
I become an Author and resume my Interrupted Career as a Lecturer 1901
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It could not be because I had a “silver-tongue,” for I read in the local newspaper one day when I had been lecturing in the western part of the state that “a voluble German with a voice like a squeaky cellar-door” had been in town.
The Making of an American Riis, Jacob A 1901
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He was the college silver-tongue, and we settled back to listen to him.
At Good Old Siwash George Fitch 1896
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It could not be because I had a "silver-tongue," for I read in the local newspaper one day when I had been lecturing in the western part of the state that "a voluble German with a voice like a squeaky cellar-door" had been in town.
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With much frenetic silver-tongue reasons, he finally convinced them that the guns weren’t real.
Archive 2009-10-01 Irene Gallo 2009
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With much frenetic silver-tongue reasons, he finally convinced them that the guns weren’t real.
David Grove, Hall of Fame: a Greg Manchess introduction Irene Gallo 2009
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