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wicked tongue

wicked tongue noun: an abusive, vulgar, nasty, or otherwise objectionable manner of speaking.

Noun

wicked tongue (plural wicked tongues)

  1. (idiomatic) An abusive, vulgar, nasty, or otherwise objectionable manner of speaking.
    • My son, keep well thy tongue, and keep thy friend;
      A wicked tongue is worse than is a fiendc. 1870, Geoffrey Chaucer (original), David Laing Purves (modern translation), The Canterbury Tales, The Manciple's Tale
    • [W]hen I met with any despicable thing, I hesitated not to call it so; and men had never done with talking of my restless head and wicked tongue.1839, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Thomas Carlyle, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Book VII, ch. 3

wicked tongue meaning in Bengali

wicked tongue in Bengali

কথা বলার একটি গালিগালাজপূর্ণ, অশ্লীল, কুরুচিপূর্ণ, অন্যথায় আপত্তিজনক ধরন

Examples of wicked tongue in a sentence

  • [T]he stories which came to his ears . . . sometimes spoke strange evil of her—of her violent temper, of her wicked tongue, of her outraging of all customs and decencies.1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 14, in His Grace of Osmonde:
  • He called him everything he could think of, and this was a great deal, for Sammy has a wicked tongue.1917, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter 18, in The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver:
  • "I like strong, conniving women with wicked tongues," Roos explains.1999 January 14, Geoffrey Macnab, “Arts: Strong, conniving women: the final frontier”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 12 May 2014:
  • Playing amateur sleuth . . . frees her wicked tongue to spill the beans about her neighbors’ secret vices and adulterous affairs.2007 February 4, Marilyn Stasio, “Murder Most Suburban”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 May 2014:

Forms of wicked tongue

pluralwicked tongues

Questions about wicked tongue

What does wicked tongue mean?
Wicked tongue means an abusive, vulgar, nasty, or otherwise objectionable manner of speaking.
What is wicked tongue in Bengali?
Wicked tongue in Bengali is কথা বলার একটি গালিগালাজপূর্ণ, অশ্লীল, কুরুচিপূর্ণ. See Wicked tongue meaning in Bengali.
How do you use wicked tongue in a sentence?
[T]he stories which came to his ears . . . sometimes spoke strange evil of her—of her violent temper, of her wicked tongue, of her outraging of all customs and decencies.
What part of speech is wicked tongue?
Wicked tongue is a noun.
What is the plural of wicked tongue?
The plural of wicked tongue is wicked tongues.

Words near wicked tongue in the dictionary

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  8. wickeder
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  10. wickedish
  11. wickedly

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