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serpent-tongued

Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.

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Examples

  • Critics delighted in her haughty, serpent-tongued deliveries.

    CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2009 2009

  • Critics delighted in her haughty, serpent-tongued deliveries.

    CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2009 2009

  • Critics delighted in her haughty, serpent-tongued deliveries.

    CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2009 2009

  • The editor, Edward Rimbault tells us that "the tale of Sir Thomas Overbury is indeed one of fearful mystery," and produces a tale of intrigue and witchcraft that ends with the suggestion that Mayerne, the doctor purportedly involved in Overbury's death was only an instrument and "James the First, the double-faced, " serpent-tongued," King of England, the murderer!"

    But if not Shakespeare, then who? 2009

  • We must all think about the horrible things that the Clintonistas and their serpent-tongued mouthpieces have said over the past five months and uniformly agree that if Obama picks that viperous backstabbing race-baiting, sexism-card-playing homo-sapien for VP, we will vote for Bob Barr. Sorry Nader, you're older and crazier than McInsane.

    Reny Monk: Obama Presents Broom to the Wizards Tonight 2008

  • Since the upper crust aped English manners, Scorsese assembled a brilliant supporting cast of British actors like Miriam Margolyes as the dowager Mrs. Mingott, a female Falstaff, inundated by lap dogs, and Alec McCowen as Sillerton Jackson, a serpent-tongued Satan of gossip.

    This Fall's A Ball 2008

  • Dung and offal on the heads of all serpent-tongued charmers!

    The Annual Christmas Blogletter Ms Robinson 2007

  • Harry heard Hermione gasp, horrified, as a gigantic serpent-tongued skull erupted from the point where the two wands met, but it was a mere shadow of the green skull high above them; it looked as though it were made of thick gray smoke: the ghost of a spell.

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000

  • Gazing around the wheeling, converging horde of enemies, he glimpsed a new wave of serpent-tongued fighters, and he could tell from Evadne's gasps of consternation that the lurid daylight was revealing hideous sights to her as well.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Gazing around the wheeling, converging horde of enemies, he glimpsed a new wave of serpent-tongued fighters, and he could tell from Evadne's gasps of consternation that the lurid daylight was revealing hideous sights to her as well.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

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