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Double-tongued

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dou·ble-tongue (dbl-tng)
intr.v. dou·ble-tongued, dou·ble-tongu·ing, dou·ble-tongues
To play a rapidly repeated series of notes on a wind instrument by placing the tongue alternately between the positions for t and k.
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Adj.1.Double-tongueddouble-tongued - marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray
double-dealing, duplicitous, two-faced, Janus-faced, double-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful
dishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive


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But Hermes was angry because he was double-tongued, and struck him with his staff and changed him into a rock.
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