fair-spoken
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of fair-spoken
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75
Example Sentences
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For 70 of these 90 years, he has been 'a scholar and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading.'
From Time Magazine Archive
‘I am Mr. Brandybuck. Is that enough for you? The Bree-folk used to be fair-spoken to travellers, or so I had heard.’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
“And he’s a fine, fair-spoken young fellow; but Sir Mooray hates him like poison, and it can never be.”
From The Sapphire Cross by George Manville Fenn
Now the man into whose house he had turned, though he was a fair-spoken man, and one who knew well how to seem honest and true, was altogether a deceiver.
From The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes by Samuel Wilberforce
"Anyhow, he's a nice, fair-spoken, pretty young man," the lady said: "how many tickets did he take of you?"
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
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