free-spoken
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of free-spoken
First recorded in 1615–25
Example Sentences
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In the free-spoken, never-adjourned town meeting which the vast American democracy tries to resemble, one subject that had long been on people's minds had never, until last week, been put squarely on the agenda.
From Time Magazine Archive
For more than ten years, theater in Czechoslovakia has been a free-spoken forum for the forces of liberalization.
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Last week fellow editors around the U.S., who subscribe to the Democrat as one of the last of the nation's free-spoken rural papers, chuckled over Aull's latest.
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Back to his Texas post went the free-spoken General with mind at rest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well; I should be more free-spoken than that, if you were to ask me about Mary Lawrie.
From An Old Man's Love by Anthony Trollope
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