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flannel-mouthed

flannel-mouthed adjective: smooth and persuasive in speech, especially in order to deceive or manipulate.

Adjective

flannel-mouthed (comparative more flannel-mouthed, superlative most flannel-mouthed)

  1. Smooth and persuasive in speech, especially in order to deceive or manipulate.
    • I went to her, sat close beside her and tried snuggling up a little. It worked. . . . "I can get them," I said just as flannel-mouthed as ever I could, like all of us talked to her now.1913, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 16, in Laddie: A True Blue Story
  2. Unclear, muffled, or halting in speech.
    • [N]ot only does Kerry have a flannel-mouthed inability to utter a simple sentence, but his orotundities also serve to reinforce the notion that the Senator from Massachusetts is a patrician stiff, too smug to speak in a manner decipherable by ordinary Americans.2004 February 22, Joe Klein, “Beware Flannel-Mouth Disease!”, in Time

Forms of flannel-mouthed

comparativemore flannel-mouthed
superlativemost flannel-mouthed
alternative formflannelmouthed

Questions about flannel-mouthed

What does flannel-mouthed mean?
Flannel-mouthed means smooth and persuasive in speech, especially in order to deceive or manipulate.
What part of speech is flannel-mouthed?
Flannel-mouthed is an adjective.

Words near flannel-mouthed in the dictionary

  1. flannel panel
  2. flannel panels
  3. flannel weed
  4. flannel weeds
  5. flannel-mouth
  6. flannel-mouthed
  7. flannel-mouths
  8. flannelboard
  9. flannelboards
  10. flannelbush
  11. flannelbushes

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