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- noun The property of being
mellifluous .
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Examples
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Mere mellifluousness is enough to cause you to suspend disbelief when a proven slimebag orates?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Jews and Catholics on the Supreme Court? 2010
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Mere mellifluousness is enough to cause you to suspend disbelief when a proven slimebag orates?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Jews and Catholics on the Supreme Court? 2010
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Mere mellifluousness is enough to cause you to suspend disbelief when a proven slimebag orates?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Jews and Catholics on the Supreme Court? 2010
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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.
A Return to the Land of Rushdie Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010
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Mere mellifluousness is enough to cause you to suspend disbelief when a proven slimebag orates?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Jews and Catholics on the Supreme Court? 2010
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‘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 divine charms’ — here he kissed his hand and bowed again — ‘waft mellifluousness over the neighbours’ gardens, and force the fruit and vegetables into premature existence.
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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His mellifluousness was gone and he spat out the words with mechanical intonation.
When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985
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His mellifluousness was gone and he spat out the words with mechanical intonation.
When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985
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His mellifluousness was gone and he spat out the words with mechanical intonation.
When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985
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Though her French accent was so much part of her that it remained, all the mellifluousness of her manner left her when she was engaged in teaching.
Of Human Bondage 1919
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