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Outspeak

Outspeak \Out*speak"\, v. t.

  1. To exceed in speaking.

  2. To speak openly or boldly.
    --T. Campbell.

  3. To express more than.
    --Shak.

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outspeak

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To surpass in speaking; say or express more than; signify or claim superiority to; be superior to in meaning or significance; speak louder than. 2 (context intransitive rare dialectal English) To speak out or aloud. 3 (context transitive rare dialectal English) To declare; utter; express; vocalise.

Usage examples of "outspeak".

The conversation turned gladiatorial, each male present trying to outspeak all others for the right to explain things to Miriam.

Napoleon and the outspeaking of his minions, together with the measures which have been clandestinely taken by persons of power and influence to advance the interests of secession, show that there are influential classes in Western Europe, allied by interest to her fragmentary political organizations, who would gladly see the United States broken to pieces under the shock of rebellion.

Perry Bay for the selection, he talked at length with Captain Bellamy and sent word to Patrick McNamara, who might have been an outspoken villain, but who was having marked success with the management of his own selection in the east.

My father was outspoken in his views concerning the responsibilities of the landed class.

Harrison, an outspoken Virginia planter, six feet four inches tall and immensely fat, was a fervent champion of American rights who liked to say he would have come to Philadelphia on foot had it been necessary.

Alexander was outspoken in his contempt for British policy toward America.

To be fearlessly outspoken in her opinions came easily to her, since she judged solely from the standpoint of her social position.

The frankness of such a secretly outspoken thought could not go without some derisive self-criticism.

I also made her outspoken, extraordinarily curious, and smart as hell.

While in Vietnam, Kerry was an outspoken critic to the point of being characterized by some as a perpetual whiner.

Kerry invented them to create the false impression that he was an outspoken critic of the war and war policies while in Vietnam.

Kerry is typically self-serving, designed to advance the idea that he was an outspoken critic of military policy, willing to challenge his superiors whenever possible.

In the last couple of years of his life, he had broadened his civil rights agenda to include an assault on urban poverty and outspoken opposition to the war.

A short, full-bosomed, green-eyed redhead, her lawyer friend was as outspoken as she was loyal.

The confrontation as imagined and reported by Kerry is typically self-serving, designed to advance the idea that he was an outspoken critic of military policy, willing to challenge his superiors whenever possible.