honeymouthed

Adjective

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

1. (idiomatic) (in a positive sense) Having a sweet and smooth voice; eloquent.
   • Truely, when I reade a Sermon of Chrysostome, or of Chrysologus, or of Ambrose, Men, who carry in the very signification of their Names, and in their Histories, the attributes of Hony mouthed, and Golden-mouthed Men, I finde my selfe oftentimes, more affected, with the very Citation, and...1627, John Donne, Fifty Sermons, London: M.F., J. Marriot & R. Royston, 1649, Volume 2, Sermon 42, p. 386
2. (idiomatic) (in a negative sense) Indirect, delivering a message in a way that will make it seem more pleasant to the hearer(s); seductive, persuasive.
   • Now to thintent thou mayest playnly beholde and Iudge rightly of these hony mouthed false feynyng flatterours and auncient enemyes of Christes religion the better and more readily […]1553, Stephen Gardiner, “The Preface of the translatour to the gentil reader”, in Edmund Bonner, transl., Touching True Obedience, Rome: Hugh Singleton