free-spoken
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- free-spokenly adverb
- free-spokenness noun
Etymology
Origin of free-spoken
First recorded in 1615–25
Example Sentences
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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
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
For more than ten years, theater in Czechoslovakia has been a free-spoken forum for the forces of liberalization.
From Time Magazine Archive
As you, my reader, might enter therein, and purchase a yard and a half of oilcloth, if you were so minded, I think that the free-spoken friends of the family were not far wrong.
From Miss Mackenzie by Trollope, Anthony
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