"wicked tongue" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1870, Geoffrey Chaucer (original), David Laing Purves (modern translation), The Canterbury Tales, The Manciple's Tale",
          "text": "My son, keep well thy tongue, and keep thy friend;\nA wicked tongue is worse than is a fiend"
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          "ref": "1839, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Thomas Carlyle, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Book VII, ch. 3",
          "text": "[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.",
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          "ref": "1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 14, in His Grace of Osmonde",
          "text": "[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.",
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          "ref": "1917, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter 18, in The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver",
          "text": "He called him everything he could think of, and this was a great deal, for Sammy has a wicked tongue.",
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          "ref": "1999 January 14, Geoffrey Macnab, “Arts: Strong, conniving women: the final frontier”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-05-12",
          "text": "She lies, steals and sleeps around, gleefully spreading malicious rumours wherever she goes. \"I like strong, conniving women with wicked tongues,\" Roos explains.",
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          "ref": "2007 February 4, Marilyn Stasio, “Murder Most Suburban”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-12",
          "text": "Playing amateur sleuth . . . frees her wicked tongue to spill the beans about her neighbors’ secret vices and adulterous affairs.",
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        "An abusive, vulgar, nasty, or otherwise objectionable manner of speaking."
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        "(idiomatic) An abusive, vulgar, nasty, or otherwise objectionable manner of speaking."
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          "word": "guttermouth"
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          "word": "potty mouth"
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          "word": "sharp tongue"
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          "word": "silver tongue"
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          "ref": "c. 1870, Geoffrey Chaucer (original), David Laing Purves (modern translation), The Canterbury Tales, The Manciple's Tale",
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