fair-spoken

Example Sentences

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For 70 of these 90 years, he has been 'a scholar and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading.'

From Time Magazine Archive

‘I am Mr. Brandybuck. Is that enough for you? The Bree-folk used to be fair-spoken to travellers, or so I had heard.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The last of the callers, carrying off Mrs. Marshall-Smith with her, had taken an urbane, fair-spoken departure.

From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Plausible, plawz′i-bl, adj. that may be applauded: seemingly worthy of approval or praise: superficially pleasing: apparently right: fair-spoken: popular.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

He was a fair-spoken youth, obviously of some education.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman