“mauvaise langue”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

mauvaise langue

释义

‖ mauvaise langue|mɔvɛz lɑ̃g|
[Fr., lit. ‘bad tongue’.]
An evil or venomous tongue; a vituperative gossip; a scandal-monger.
1888C. M. Yonge Beechcroft at Rockstone II. xiii. 14 The foreboding that the mauvaises langues would get hold of it.1924A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl iv. i. 304 Marigold is a wretched gossip, and worse. She's a mauvaise langue; I would not trust her story.1936‘R. West’ Thinking Reed i. 18 In another moment that couple of mauvaises langues would have something to wag about.1939C. Beaton My Royal Past ix. 101 A lady..with a very mauvaise langue.1974New Society 11 Apr. 58/2 We are told that all Europe is at a standstill, until it knows who has been elected president (and those who are mauvaise langue will add that if it is Chaban-Delmas, there will be a further delay whilst he acquaints himself with foreign affairs).

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