ADJECTIVE
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characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
a forthright approach to the problem
a point-blank accusation
forthright criticism
tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank
it is possible to be outspoken without being rude
blunt talking and straight shooting
a blunt New England farmer
I gave them my candid opinion
plainspoken and to the point
How To Use free-spoken In A Sentence
- 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, The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
- He was always free-spoken in his cups; and, to say the truth, he was in his cups many more times in a week than his doctors allowed. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
- When Huxter commenced his attack, that free-spoken young gentleman had not seen who was his opponent; and directly he was aware that it was Arthur whom he had insulted, he began to make apologies. The History of Pendennis
- There are classical comedies in verse, too, wherein the knavish valets, rakish heroes, stolid old guardians, and smart, free-spoken serving-women, discourse in Alexandrines, as loud as the Horaces or the Cid. The Paris Sketch Book
- The Opposition is very free-spoken, as are most of us in this country, on the conduct of the German Nazi Government.
- The Opposition is very free-spoken, as are most of us in this country, on the conduct of the German Nazi Government. Archive 2004-02-08
- He is a hard-nosed, free-spoken coach who cares little for glitz and more for guts.
- devilry" I cannot speak too highly, and in this matter even the pudibund Lane is as free-spoken as myself. Arabian nights. English
- Many were spunky and free-spoken delegates to the 1996 founding convention who co-mingled with representatives of the more electoral-leaning founding unions ILWU (west coast) and United Electrical Workers. The Third Party Project
- It had as yet been an only present, and in thanking him for it, which she had done with full, free-spoken words of love, she had begged him to send her no other, so that that might ever be to her, — to her dying day, — the one precious thing that had been given to her by her lover while she was yet a girl. The Way We Live Now