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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Conversations between her commander and his very free-spoken subordinates, however, revealed the fact that what might be called her commission as a ship of war was exceedingly roving.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.
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