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Well-spoken   /wɛl-spˈoʊkən/   Listen
Well-spoken

adjective
1.
Speaking or spoken fittingly or pleasingly.  "A few well-spoken words on civic pride"





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"Well-spoken" Quotes from Famous Books



... me, Wes," Kevin MacHenery complained, handing him a foil and a wire-mesh mask. "Slip off your shoes. It's a terrible burden you are laying on the shoulders of an aging man, being so well-spoken when he likes nothing more than an argument. Now assume the on guard ...
— The Great Potlatch Riots • Allen Kim Lang
 
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... before. How much more worthy of thankfulness is the man who gives us a harmless, devout citizen in place of a ruffian, a hale and capable seaman in place of an agonized cripple, a quiet abstainer in place of a dangerous debauchee, a seemly well-spoken friend of society in place of a foul-mouthed enemy of society? Up till very recent years the fishermen were a rather debauched set, and those who had money or material to barter for liquor could ...
— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman
 
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... not particularly gracious or well-spoken. Leonora simply nodded and leaned back from ...
— The Blue Germ • Martin Swayne
 
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... discrediting our own troops must have put this invention about, per Murdoch. Doubtless we strike here upon the source of these "unofficial statements" which have been flowing into the War Office. All I remember of his visit to me here is a sensible, well-spoken man with dark eyes, who said his mind was a blank about soldiers and soldiering, and made me uncomfortable by an elaborate explanation of why his duty to Australia could be better done with a pen than with a rifle. He was one week ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton
 
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... such a well-spoken boy and so nice to have round," asserted she to Mr. Wharton. "Not a mite of trouble, either. In fact, he's a hundred times handier than my own man, who although he can make a garden thrive can't drive a nail straight to save his life. And there's never any fussing about his ...
— Ted and the Telephone • Sara Ware Bassett
 
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