mouth the words

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mouth the words

verb mouths the words · mouthing the words · mouthed the words

  1. literally To mouth words in the sense "to make the actions of speech, without producing sound." 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. idiomatic To speak insincerely. They mouth the words “democracy” and “Americanism”, but they inject in their preachments national hatred, national aggrandizement, and glorification of the fascist dictatorships.

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@misc{mouth_the_words_2026,
  title = {mouth the words},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mouth%20the%20words},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}