free-spoken
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of free-spoken
First recorded in 1615–25
Example Sentences
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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.
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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
What is called by French authors the esprit gaulois—a spirit of mischievous and free-spoken jocularity—does not make its appearance at once, or in all kinds of work.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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