outspoken

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Passionate and outspoken, his views usually hit the right notes, mainly because he had direct emails to the sport's hierarchy.

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  1. verb Past participle of outspeak.
  2. adjective Spoken without reserve; candid.
  3. adjective Frank and unreserved in speech. See Synonyms at frank1.

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  • Passionate and outspoken, his views usually hit the right notes, mainly because he had direct emails to the sport's hierarchy. —  Telegraph Blogs
  • Okubo was known to be daringly outspoken, and to often make his point with engaging and ironic wit. —  News On Japan
  • One can almost sense the glee she feels in the headline and subhead of the story: "Obama's Other Pastor: Conservative, outspoken, and Houston born, this preacher and Bush friend is backing Barack." —  Culture and Media Institute Headlines
  • One can almost sense the glee she feels in the headline and subhead of the story: "Obama's Other Pastor: Conservative, outspoken, and Houston born, this preacher and Bush friend is backing Barack." yet another attempt by Newsweek to distance Obama from the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the pastor who had a close relationship with Obama for twenty years. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • Father Hull, S. J., whose admirable, outspoken, and impartial study of the case[29] should be on everybody's bookshelves, freely admits that the Roman Congregations made a mistake in this matter and thus takes up a less favourable position towards them than even the violently anti-Catholic Huxley No one will deny that the action of the Congregation was due to a desire to prevent simple persons from having their faith upset by a theory which seemed at the time to contradict the teaching of the Bible. —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
 

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courageous ·  uncompromising ·  frank ·  sincere ·  vehement ·  hearty ·  staunch ·  shrewd ·  stubborn ·  aggressive ·  forceful ·  emphatic
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/ˈaʊtspoʊkn/
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