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n. - The quality of being sweet, as if by honey.

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  • Mere mellifluousness is enough to cause you to suspend disbelief when a proven slimebag orates?
  • His mellifluousness was gone and he spat out the words with mechanical intonation.
  • Eventually Haroun helped restore to his father, Rashid Khalifa. all the garrulity and mellifluousness for which he, in the story, and Mr. Rushdie, in life, are celebrated.
  • ‘I do know,’ said the old gentleman, laying his finger on his nose, with an air of familiarity, most reprehensible, ‘that this is a sacred and enchanted spot, where the most...
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