wicked tongue
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An abusive, vulgar, nasty, or otherwise objectionable manner of speaking.
Example Sentences
- "My son, keep well thy tongue, and keep thy friend; A wicked tongue is worse than is a fiend"
- "[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."
- "[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."
- "He called him everything he could think of, and this was a great deal, for Sammy has a wicked tongue."
- "She lies, steals and sleeps around, gleefully spreading malicious rumours wherever she goes. "I like strong, conniving women with wicked tongues," Roos explains."
- "Playing amateur sleuth . . . frees her wicked tongue to spill the beans about her neighbors’ secret vices and adulterous affairs."