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free-spoken en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Characterized by direct and open expression of views, feelings, etc.
   • You can imagine what fairly free-spoken girls will ask when they come to the point of not caring what they say. 1915, Joseph Conrad, chapter 8, in Victory: An Island Tale:
   • Look at 21st-century Britons, tongue-tied in conversation, groping for some PC euphemism (“If I’m allowed to say that…”) in what was once the most iconically free-spoken country on earth. 2009 November 9, Gerald Warner, “Funeral in Berlin—of freedom”, in The Telegraph, retrieved 05 Jun 2014:
   • She had views of her own and was free-spoken to a fault. 1998, Roland Huntford, Nansen: The Explorer as Hero, ch. 1 (at nytimes.com)
   • He was a very free-spoken man (the gentry of those days were much prouder than at present), and used to say to me in his haughty easy way, "Hang it, Mr. Barry, you have no more manners than a barber." 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Barry Lyndon:

Forms

Relateds

free speech · speak one's mind

Synonyms

outspoken · unreserved · free-speaking · candid · frank

Translations (3)

bg прям (Characterized by direct and open expression) · grc ἐλευθερόστομος (Characterized by direct and open expression) · bg откровен (Characterized by direct and open expression)