"sharp tongue" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1819, Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle:",
          "text": "Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.",
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        {
          "ref": "1910, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 5, in Queen Sheba's Ring:",
          "text": "He hated the Professor, who smelt the rogue in him, and scourged him continually with his sharp tongue.",
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          "ref": "2003 July 28, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Washington Memo: Can a 'Wire Brush' Learn Civility?”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-12:",
          "text": "Mr. Thomas rarely misses a chance to use his sharp tongue. Republicans are terrified of him; Democrats call him a bully.",
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        "The practice or characteristic of speaking to others in a harsh, critical, or insulting manner."
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        "(idiomatic) The practice or characteristic of speaking to others in a harsh, critical, or insulting manner."
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        {
          "word": "silver tongue"
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          "word": "wicked tongue"
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          "sense": "speaking in a harsh manner",
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          "word": "cięty język"
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          "roman": "óstryj jazýk",
          "sense": "speaking in a harsh manner",
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          "word": "о́стрый язы́к"
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      "sense": "speaking in a harsh manner",
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