Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Slanderous; calumnious; foul-mouthed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
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- adjective Using
foul orscurrilous language ;slanderous .
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Examples
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Cheever invariably described his uncle as a "black-mouthed old wreck" or "monkey," since their occasional meetings were not happy.
'Cheever: A Life' 2009
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Beneath Mount Copleston a thunderous waterfall poured off the tundra into a deep pool where we landed seven char — silver-sided hens and black-mouthed males with hooked jaws.
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A little way from the church we crossed a road running into San Jorge, and, looking up, saw a high log-barricade, some fifty rods off, with embrasures and black-mouthed cannon frowning down on us.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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Then Bill started a blaze roaring in the black-mouthed fireplace -- to make it look natural, he said -- and went out to hobble his horses for the night.
North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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He stopped before a black-mouthed chasm, two or three hundred yards along the smallest subdivision of the cavern, and called for lights and a rope.
The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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Here the Bird swooped downwards and alighted before a black-mouthed cave.
Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations Edmund Dulac 1917
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He stopped before a black-mouthed chasm, two or three hundred yards along the smallest subdivision of the cavern, and called for lights and
The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909
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Through the windows of the brick walls peered the black-mouthed guns trained across the water.
The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln Thomas Dixon 1905
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And then a sheet of blinding flame from every black-mouthed gun in line double shotted with grape and canister!
The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln Thomas Dixon 1905
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Up and up he followed the winding of that narrow trail, and came out at last upon a rocky platform before a black-mouthed cave.
Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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