Meaning of wicked tongue | Babel Free

Definitions

An abusive, vulgar, nasty, or otherwise objectionable manner of speaking.

idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level