What's the difference between irrepressible and outspoken?

Irrepressible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crucially, these irrepressible fluctuations provide a natural explanation for the temperature fluctuations observed by Planck.
  • (2) Inspired by Gareth Bale, Wales were irrepressible as they subjected Russia to a humiliating defeat and secured their place in the knockout stage of Euro 2016 as group winners.
  • (3) As ruthless as Liverpool were with their finishing, in particular the irrepressible Luis Suárez , who scored twice to take his tally for the season to 22, Stoke were guilty of some calamitous defending and contributed largely to their own downfall.
  • (4) He's irrepressible, so he finds a way to overcome what obstacles they give him.
  • (5) Trailing 2-1 at one stage, Liverpool responded in emphatic fashion through a hat-trick from the irrepressible Luis Suárez, who took his tally for the season to 28 in 25 appearances, two goals from Martin Skrtel and another for Daniel Sturridge.
  • (6) With David Silva irrepressible, City created so many chances it seemed faintly ridiculous that they should face the prospect of further dropped points away from home, however boldly Fulham contributed to a real thriller.
  • (7) So too were ideological debates that had supposedly long been settled; that catchphrase of our age, “there is no alternative”, was confronted by myriad tiny, irrepressible political grenades that detonated deep inside countless imaginations.
  • (8) "I have a gift and I am gifting it to you," the irrepressible Italian nun told judges when she started out in March in the amateur contest.
  • (9) The Zymomonas mobilis phoA gene, encoding a phosphate-irrepressible alkaline phosphatase (ZAPase), was cloned and its expression was studied in phoA mutants of Escherichia coli.
  • (10) Once Liverpool had mustered some rhythm of their own, they were irrepressible.
  • (11) The monkey made irrepressible saccades toward the contralateral visual field where cells in the SNr at the injection site had their visual or movement field.
  • (12) Its spirit seems to hark back, past Shakespeare, to Chaucer, enabling Dickens to embody something quintessentially and irrepressibly English.
  • (13) In spite of a constant and irrepressible growth of sprouts from the proximal stump of peripheral nerves that have been injured, functional recovery varies greatly from one case to another.
  • (14) Ai Weiwei is only the best known, but he remains a crucial figure, one irrepressible man living in truth who reveals the billion lies attending China’s advance into the world.
  • (15) Irrepressibly bright and spirited, Ben experienced life at full tilt.
  • (16) Goals from Ramiro Funes Mori and the irrepressible Romelu Lukaku, his 19th of the season, sandwiched a rare composed finish from Jesús Navas to give Martínez the advantage he craved and the tangible reward he needed to convince the growing doubters .
  • (17) That ought to be the case,” Eubank Sr says, “but I have not seen anyone who has his irrepressibility, relentlessness, speed, power, spite and control.
  • (18) Monday night’s victor in Nice will know the hosts can be both vulnerable and irrepressible.
  • (19) Chelsea were irrepressible, but Leicester never hinted at resistance.
  • (20) In this case, and if it assumes the features of strong and irrepressible pain, it can probably be related to sudden and remarkable hematic harvest in subcapsular space or, owing to its breach, in perirenal space.

Outspoken


Definition:

  • (a.) Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; as, an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
  • (2) Belaïd was an outspoken critic of these groups, whom he accused of being affiliated to Ennahda.
  • (3) Hansen has been an outspoken critic of tar sands, saying last year "it will be game over for the climate if development of the oil sands isn't stopped".
  • (4) A heavy smoker – “I once quit for four months … but why should I torture myself at my age?” – and outspoken supporter of gay marriage, the divorced and recently remarried father of two collected more than 4,000 signatures from Austrian public figures and celebrities during his presidential campaign.
  • (5) She rejected recent criticism that she has not been sufficiently outspoken against sectarian violence in her country, particularly attacks on the Rohingya Muslim minority in the west of the country.
  • (6) Less than 2% of humanitarian funds 'go directly to local NGOs' Read more Suggest to her that she’s too outspoken, that her approach is counterproductive and alienates those who are trying to drive change more gently, and she pauses.
  • (7) Chelvan has been an outspoken human rights activist since his days as an undergraduate.
  • (8) Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records Read more Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , the outspoken mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.
  • (9) But the outspoken journalist and human rights activist has long been a thorn in Ali Abdullah Saleh's side, agitating for press freedoms and staging weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners from jail – a place she has been several times herself.
  • (10) In an outspoken intervention that will reignite tensions between church leaders and the government, Sentamu accuses those in power of offering only "warm words" and "sticking plaster" solutions to a problem that is having "devastating" effects on people's lives.
  • (11) In recent weeks he has been privately outspoken about the need for wide-ranging and fundamental reform of parliament, arguing that everything from party funding, candidate selection, electoral reform and cabinet collective responsibility should be re-examined.
  • (12) The crackdown has alarmed activists and outspoken intellectuals, with some resorting to exile.
  • (13) But while she unquestionably adds colour to Westminster, the outspoken MP has also shown a repeated facility for self-sabotage.
  • (14) In Catalonia the outspoken local politician is derided as a feeble sellout for opposing total independence; in the rest of Spain he is damned as a rabid separatist for wanting a bit more self-governance.
  • (15) But in the article – his first in-depth interview since the bank's $5.8bn trading loss emerged – he makes a new set of strongly-worded remarks and characterises himself as an "outspoken defender of the truth".
  • (16) Ismayilova, an outspoken critic of the government, has been in prison for more than a year on charges she claims are politically motivated.
  • (17) The hostility Said encountered from pro-Israeli circles in New York was predictable, given his trenchant attacks on Israeli violations of the human rights of Palestinians and his outspoken condemnations of US policies in the Middle East.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s outspoken finance minister, left, with Tsakalotos.
  • (19) The letters have been published amid growing signs that Charles is planning to rule in a far more outspoken way than the taciturn Queen.
  • (20) Nevertheless, appearing in Iowa alongside outspoken conservatives such as King carries its own political risk for national politicians.