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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.

double-tongued
adj
deceitful or hypocritical in speech
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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
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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