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adj- Sweetly flowing; smooth, honeyed.

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Usage examples (21)
  • Cornelius Cethegus, so much admired for his mellifluent tongue; who was the colleague of Tuditanus, and the son of
  • How can you use the word “Generosity”, when the magnificently mellifluent “Flaithulach” so utterly describes this marvelous personal characteristic?
  • A man with a deep, mellifluent voice was just finishing up a report on the latest city-budget crisis when he an - nounced that there was breaking news in midtown.
  • Pindar sung in these words, ossa de me pephileke Zeus atuzontai boan Pieridon aionta; for he had no sooner begun to repeat the mellifluent strains of that divine poet,...
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