mouth the words

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To mouth words in the sense "to make the actions of speech, without producing sound." literally
    — Indeed, on Dick Clark's madly popular teen-age TV show the various acts never sing at all, but merely mouth the words to their own taped recordings.
  2. To speak insincerely. idiomatic
    — They mouth the words “democracy” and “Americanism”, but they inject in their preachments national hatred, national aggrandizement, and glorification of the fascist dictatorships.

词形变化

mouths the words present,singular,third-person mouthing the words participle,present mouthed the words participle,past mouthed the words past
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