See well-spoken on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 3, page 231:",
"text": "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 […]",
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"ref": "2001, Mark F. Beck, Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage:",
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"ref": "2009, Ata Akiner, Burhan Apaydin, In Pursuit of Justice, page 153:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:",
"text": "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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"word": "jeih-ocklagh"
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"word": "well-spoken"
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"text": "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.",
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"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "sprachlich gewandt"
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"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "εὔστομος"
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"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "dea-bhriathrach"
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"word": "deisbhéalach"
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"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
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"roman": "účtiv",
"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "у́чтив"
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"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
"word": "jeih-ocklagh"
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"sense": "eloquent and able with regards to speech",
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