free-spoken
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of free-spoken
First recorded in 1615–25
Example Sentences
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Back to his Texas post went the free-spoken General with mind at rest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The investigators found the college freshmen most finicky, the seniors most free-spoken, the faculty betwixt & between.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Even more dismaying was New York Fire Commissioner Edward F. Cavanagh Jr.'s free-spoken implication that the fire could have been avoided or minimized.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other young girls could not have made such an open declaration without rosy blushes suffusing their cheeks; they would have been frightened at their free-spoken words, even though the morrow was their wedding-day.
From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Laura Jean Libbey
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