adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an outspoken/vocal opponent (= one who publicly expresses disagreement with something )
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He was a vocal opponent of closer relations with the United States.
outspoken criticism (= said very openly and directly )
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I was surprised by his outspoken criticism of the system.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Scholarly thinking became still more outspoken in the early 1990s.
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They were noticeably more outspoken than at the outset.
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The parties at the centre of the political spectrum became more outspoken in their criticisms of the government.
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Rhee intensified his pressure in the early months of 1947 and became more outspoken in criticising the military government.
most
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The most outspoken advocates of public participation in central government were a minority of activists among the provincial nobility.
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Kellmer Pringle is among the most outspoken proponents of the society-as-parent type of view.
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Next day we lunched with a young politician known as the most outspoken critic of Smith and the government.
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And it was one of the most outspoken attacks by a Royal on a foreign power.
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Cabinet Ministers; some of the most shell-backed Right-wingers and some of the most outspoken men of the Left.
■ NOUN
critic
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Her father was an eccentric, outspoken critic of the government, who was killed by police in 1985.
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Next day we lunched with a young politician known as the most outspoken critic of Smith and the government.
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From January 1891 it appeared as the Lagos Weekly Record, and was for forty-nine years an outspoken critic of colonialism.
opponent
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The law was sent for approval to Governor George Deukmejian, a former outspoken opponent of gun control.
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Davis has earned a reputation as an outspoken opponent of any kind of nuclear waste dumping at sea.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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outspoken views
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She's an outspoken critic of U.S. policy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a former schoolmaster, he has always been outspoken on education issues and a firm supporter of traditional learning methods.
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But now she will be able to return to her outspoken , opinionated self.
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Dysart was an obvious target: ex-Navy, Ministry of Defence, outspoken in support of the Union.
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In its earlier years it was extremely outspoken in its condemnation of anything that failed to gain its approval.
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It revealed Docherty to be a witty, compulsive and outspoken man who feels cheated by the past.
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Perhaps it made me too outspoken .
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We'd know nothing of that damaged ball but for outspoken Allan Lamb.