Meanings of biting tongue in English

Still, they enjoyed her society-shehad such a biting tongue that it was stimulating.

But the biting tongue of the frivolous mixed races dwelling in this city is well known.

Canon Nicholls was not popular among them for other reasons, but chiefly because of a biting tongue.

Her biting tongue made him wince.

Dzeko was one of those to feel the biting tongue of Mancini and increasingly found himself out of favour.

He was a shrivelled-up American with a biting tongue, and the only man in the country from whom Druro would take back talk.

"Yes, a fool, that is to say, an epigrammatist, whose biting tongue makes the whole court tremble."

"Gabriel," said Lucretia, sternly, "you have a biting tongue, and it is folly in me to resent those privileges which our fearful connection gives you.