ill-tongued

Pyrrhus should banish a certain ill-tongued fellow in Ambracia, who had spoken very indecently of him, “Let him rather,” said he, “speak against us here to a few, than rambling about to a great many.”

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

We'll gang blithely doon the road like an ill-tongued pack

The Barns o' Beneuches 1998

"Tak 'your hand off me, you ill-tongued bissam," saya he, "or I'll lay your feet fest for you."

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

But it is much farther to be sought for among the vexations which house-keeping people have not only from children, but from base-natured, lasie, tailing, lavish, and ill-tongued servants; done unto them somtimes by their men, but generally by the foolish and stifnecked Maids.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

This Mand was a man fierce and excessive in eating and sleeping, a man ill-tongued, foul-mouthed, like Dubthach Doeltenga of Ulster.

Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

An ill-tongued foul-mouthed man like Dubthach Doel ( 'Black-tongue') of Ulster.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

The man, rascal and ill-tongued as I doubt not he was at times, refused to comply with the demand as the food at length was put upon the table.

The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906

An 'waped it on Oddie's croon [Swung it down]' Gae, tak 'ye that, ye ill-tongued tyke [Hound]

Lady Odivere (Grey Silkie 3) 1898

'There _is_ a way,' answered the tree, 'but it is rough to the feet, and beset by fierce and ill-tongued men, placed there by the fairy.

The Red Romance Book Andrew Lang 1900

'Ye keep an ill-tongued hoose, Miss Naper,' answered his lordship.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864