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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Characterized by plainness or coarseness of speech, or by a vulgar accent; unrefined.

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Examples

  • This expressed the apparent truth; and the broad-spoken operator worked me through to the Embarkation Office.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Presently a broad-spoken peasant voice called out, "Ah, but did he say aught about the bairn?"

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • There, at his own table, my grandfather sat down delightedly with his broad-spoken, homespun officers.

    Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

  • In a moment Colonna in his armour stood before the Pontiff in his robes; but he saw only the enemy of his race, who had driven out his great kinsmen, beggars and wanderers on the earth, and he lifted his visor and looked long at his victim, and then at last found words for his wrath, and bitter reproaches and taunts without end and savage curses in the broad-spoken Roman tongue.

    Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881

  • There, at his own table, my grandfather sat down delightedly with his broad-spoken, homespun officers.

    Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • There at his own table my grandfather sat down delightedly with his broad-spoken, homespun officers. "

    The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls Jacqueline Overton 1872

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