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Definition of Double-tongued
1. Adjective. Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another. "A double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"
Similar to: Dishonest, Dishonorable
Derivative terms: Deceitfulness, Double-dealing, Duplicity, Duplicity
Definition of Double-tongued
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) Saying one thing to one person and something different to another; double talking; deceitful in speech. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double-tongued
Literary usage of Double-tongued
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences Chiefly of Towns, Villages and Schools: Chiefly of Towns by Thomas Mozley (1885)
"But it is my deep conviction that it has to be made, and that in no trifling or
dissembling mood. CHAPTER CXXIV. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND double-tongued. ..."
2. Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen: From the Earliest Times to by James Wills (1841)
"... might be secured: with this view he sent over his double-tongued embassy to
Paris. On this occasion Mountjoy was sent over with Rice, and on his arrival ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"... dishonorable, double- tongued, double-faced, false-hearted. 3. Un veracious*
mendacious, lying, untrust- worthy, unreliable, truthless, untruthful. ..."
4. Colonial Dames and Good Wives by Alice Morse Earle (1895)
"double-tongued AND NAUGHTY WOMEN." T AM much impressed in reading the court -•-
records of those early days, to note the vast care taken in all the colonies ..."
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