fair-spoken

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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

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

I believe you; and for that matter the wench seemed fair-spoken enough, and gave me a drink of cider.

From Hetty Wesley by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

It seemed a pity that this stranger—and so fair-spoken a stranger, moreover—should be close at hand, without making her father's acquaintance.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William