double-tongued

  • 11double —   Pālua, pāpālua, ho opālua, kālua, lua like, lua, kaulua, āpipi, māhana.    ♦ Double number, helu lua.    ♦ Double time, hikiwawe, holo.    ♦ Double thickness, pāpālua ka mānoanoa, ahue.    ♦ Double tongued, elelo lua, lauwili.    ♦ Double edged …

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  • 12double — Synonyms and related words: Doppelganger, Janus like, Machiavellian, Photostat, Xerox, aberrancy, aberration, accelerate, act for, actual thing, agent, aggravate, alternate, alternative, ambidextrous, ambiguous, amplify, analogy, artful, at full… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 13double-faced — adjective 1. (of fabrics) having faces on both sides damask is a double faced fabric • Similar to: ↑reversible, ↑two sided 2. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of… …

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  • 14double-dealing — I noun acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another • Syn: ↑duplicity • Derivationally related forms: ↑duplicitous (for: ↑duplicity) …

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  • 15double dealing — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, ambidextrous, artful, artifice, bad faith, chicane, chicanery, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceitfulness, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonest,… …

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  • 16double-tongue — [c]/ˈdʌbəl tʌŋ/ (say dubuhl tung) verb (double tongued, double tonguing) –verb (i) 1. to employ double tonguing. –verb (t) 2. to employ double tonguing in playing (a passage of music) …

  • 17double — I. a. 1. Coupled, in pairs. 2. Twice as much. 3. Twofold. 4. Deceitful, dishonest, knavish, false, perfidious, hollow, insincere, double minded, double faced, double tongued, full of duplicity. II. ad. Twice, doubly, twofold. III. v. a …

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  • 18double-tongue — /dub euhl tung /, v.i., double tongued, double tonguing. Music. to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, esp. in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument. Cf. triple tongue. * *… …

    Universalium

  • 19double-tongue — dou•ble tongue [[t]ˈdʌb əlˌtʌŋ[/t]] v. i. tongued, tongu•ing. mus mad to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, esp. in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a wind instrument …

    From formal English to slang

  • 20Two-tongued — a. Double tongued; deceitful. Sandys. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English