Sentence examples for Double-tongued from inspiring English sources

The genus name Diglossa comes from the Greek word diglōssos, meaning "double-tongued" or "speaking two languages"; and the species name gloriosa comes from the Latin word gloriosus, meaning "glorious" or "famous" (Jobling 2010).

By the time of "An Ideal Husband," Wilde's penultimate comedy, this silver- and double-tongued fellow (in the person of Lord Goring) has become a refreshing and even kindly truth-teller, a benign stand-in for the author.

Even worse, the Inaugural was a "double-tongued" address, for it renounced Lincoln's campaign promise of working toward the "ultimate extinction" of slavery, Douglass said.

Though the word is not included in major formal dictionaries, web-based user-generated dictionaries like the Urban Dictionary (which provides "pull me thong" as an alternative term for whale tail ), the Double-Tongued Dictionary and the Wiktionary, have entries for the word.

Wearing a blue shirt that featured a large golden-tongued, double-tailed lion borrowed from the Czech coat of arms, Stepanek came back from a 4-2 definithen the second set to eventually sweep through a tiebreaker and gain command of the match.

Darrell D'Silva also brings off a notable double as both the silver-tongued Odysseus and the raging, sightless Polymestor, who is like an angry version of Shakespeare's Gloucester.

Several years ago, he recruited six iron-tongued….

Both are lucid, droll and sharp-tongued.

Scientists are rarely so sharp tongued.

That is the smooth-tongued Mualem speaking.

The loose-tongued man became closed-lip.