The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fair-spoken
Fair-spoken \Fair"-spo`ken\, a.
Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil;
courteous; plausible. ``A marvelous fair-spoken man.''
--Hooker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fair-spoken
mid-15c.; see fair (adj.) + -spoken.
Usage examples of "fair-spoken".
It may be added that, as being himself a blunt and downright Englishman, unaccustomed to conceal the slightest movement either of love or of dislike, he accounted the fair-spoken courtesy which the Scots had learned, either from imitation of their frequent allies, the French, or which might have arisen from their own proud and reserved character, as a false and astucious mark of the most dangerous designs against their neighbours, over whom he believed, with genuine English confidence, they could, by fair manhood, never obtain any advantage.