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Meaning of free-spoken | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Characterized by direct and open expression of views, feelings, etc.

Examples

“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."”
“You can imagine what fairly free-spoken girls will ask when they come to the point of not caring what they say.”
“She had views of her own and was free-spoken to a fault.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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