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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
glib; able to flatter, seduce, and persuade with words..
Oun readers may recollect a certain smooth-tongued, lankhaired, buckram-suited, Scottish scrivener, who, in the first chapters of this history, appeared in the character of a protégé of George Heriot.
He kept always good clerks, he loved money, was smooth-tongued, gave good words, and seldom lost his temper.
Coleridge smiles mischievously: 'They pay smooth-tongued publishers to instil a sense of fairness and balance into proceedings.'
Use smooth-tongued when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Smooth-tongued means glib; able to flatter, seduce, and persuade with words..
Common synonyms include glib, persuasive, glib-tongued.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Oun readers may recollect a certain smooth-tongued, lankhaired, buckram-suited, Scottish scrivener, who, in the first chapters of this history, appeared in the character of a protégé of George Heriot.
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