well-spoken

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Adjective

well-spoken (comparative more well-spoken, superlative most well-spoken)

  1. Eloquent and able with regards to speech.
    Synonyms: articulate, eloquent
    • 1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 3, page 231:
      You give the well-spoken young man the time. The well-spoken young man, keeping well up with you, resumes: "I am aware sir that it is a liberty to intrude a further question on a gentleman walking for his entertainment […]
    • 2001, Mark F. Beck, Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage:
      To get a minimum-wage employee, the company settled for a woman barely out of high school who was not well-spoken, and while she didn't cost much, the problem was that she was the first impression callers had of this multimillion dollar company.
    • 2009, Ata Akiner, Burhan Apaydin, In Pursuit of Justice, page 153:
      However well spoken a lawyer might be and however powerful an orator he may be, at the end the judge will make a decision based on legal statutes.
    • 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:
      They've obviously never met before, but are getting on like a house on fire. Both are well-spoken and versed in the Queen's English.

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