over-free

One felt that under other conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this young girl might have turned out sweet and charming.

Les Miserables 2008

That this docility on her side, and this insolence on his, and an over-free, and even indecent degree of romping, as it is called, with her, which once her mamma surprised them in, made her papa forbid his visits, and her receiving them.

Pamela 2006

While the Ciris, like the Peleus and Thetis, is over-free with involved and parenthetical sentences, it has on the whole fewer run-over lines so that indeed the frequent coincidence of sense pauses and verse endings almost borders on monotony.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

I was pleased at that -- he was known to be not over-free with his invitations -- and I thanked him, but on my not saying yes or no at once he looked chagrined; seeing which, I explained that early that fall his cousin had invited me, if ever I cared to return to Boston by water, to take passage with him on the _Orion_.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

The charge was petit-larceny, brought by a little Irish bar-keeper, who alleged that Mr. Johnson had made over-free with his 'till.'

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

I says -- 'cos you see he was a bloke as I didn't know nothing about, and there's no good being over-free with your talk.

The Nether World George Gissing 1880

And now I think of it these quarrels between him and me must rather proceed from me, spoiled child and over-free young girl that I was before my marriage with this honest, with this gallant man.

Madame Aubin Paul Verlaine 1870

Mistress Amy at the Hall, yet makes a pother and mess of it all by a duel with Sir Roger de Cadgerly, the wicked baronet, for his over-free discourse with our fair Maudlin this very eve?

Under the Redwoods Bret Harte 1869

The Sergeant-at-arms very soon put a quietus upon the observations of the representative of the nation, and convinced him that he was not, in the over-free atmosphere of his Happy-Land-of-Canaan:

The Gilded Age, Part 7. Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The Sergeant-at-arms very soon put a quietus upon the observations of the representative of the nation, and convinced him that he was not, in the over-free atmosphere of his Happy-Land-of-Canaan:

The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864