a. [f. SMOOTH adv.] Smooth-tongued, soft-spoken.

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1821.  Scott, Kenilw., xxiii. Now, a plague upon all smooth-spoken hosts!

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1838.  Lytton, Alice, II. vii. You corroborate my own opinion of that smooth-spoken gentleman.

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1854.  H. Miller, Sch. & Schm. (1858), 255. The landlord, a smooth-spoken, little old man, striving hard to conciliate him.

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