Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Soft or sweet in speech.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective idiomatic Having a sweet and smooth voice
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Examples
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And to be a ladies 'man it is understood that he must be a fashionable man, a conformist, a pliant, time-serving, honey-mouthed, smile-faced, glove-handed, eel-natured kind of a creature, as ready to smile on a sin as a virtue; whose rebukes are so sugared that they are as agreeable to take as homeopathic pills.
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I hate your honey-mouthed, easy-going skippers, who simper out, ` Please, my good men, have the goodness to brace round the foreyard when the ship's taken aback. '
The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Frothy professing Pastorets, honey-mouthed conciliatory Lamourettes, and speechless nameless individuals sit plentiful, as Moderates, in the middle.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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