free-spoken

[ free-spoh-kuh n ]

/ ˈfriˈspoʊ kən /

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adjective

given to speaking freely or without reserve; frank; outspoken.

Nearby words

free-running, free-select, free-soil, free-soiler, free-spending, free-spoken, free-swimmer, free-swimming, free-swinging, free-tailed bat, free-to-air

Origin of free-spoken

First recorded in 1615–25

Related forms

free-spo·ken·ly, adverbfree-spo·ken·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for free-spoken

You see I am a free-spoken Counsellor; may I not be a true prophet!
Private letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)|Edward Gibbon
Comfortable quarters; Apollo a cleverish, free-spoken fellow.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson|Charlotte M. Yonge
He had yielded to the free-spoken representations of Walter de Manny and to the soft entreaties of his royal wife.
A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times|Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
They stood forth as examples of endurance, abnegation — insensibility to shame and fear — free-spoken censure of others.
Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume I (of 4)|George Grote

It was his duty, they urged, to have an immediate interview with this free-spoken Anna and instruct her in the proprieties.
Seventeen|Booth Tarkington

British Dictionary definitions for free-spoken

free-spoken

adjective

speaking frankly or without restraint

Derived Forms

free-spokenly, adverbfree-spokenness, noun

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free-spoken

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free-spoken

adjective

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