fair-spoken

[fair-spoh-kuhn]

fair-spo·ken

[fair-spoh-kuhn]
adjective
speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English

fair-spo·ken·ness, noun
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Fair-spoken is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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fair-spoken
 
adj
civil, courteous, or elegant in speech
 
fair-'spokenness
 
n

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