What's the difference between outspoken and spoken?

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.

Spoken


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Speak
  • (a.) Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.
  • (a.) Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (2) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
  • (3) Groups were similar with respect to age, sex, school experience, family income, housing, primary language spoken, and nonverbal intelligence.
  • (4) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (5) I've spoken to her on the phone and seen her a couple of times, but I've not noticed any change in Georgina.
  • (6) Now US officials, who have spoken to Reuters on condition of anonymity, say the roundabout way the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion originated in China , possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy service.
  • (7) The first paper of this series (Picheny, Durlach, & Braida, 1985) presented evidence that there are substantial intelligibility differences for hearing-impaired listeners between nonsense sentences spoken in a conversational manner and spoken with the effort to produce clear speech.
  • (8) The four are the spoken language, the written language, the printing press and the electronic computer.
  • (9) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
  • (10) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
  • (11) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
  • (12) He has spoken at least twice by telephone to his family and received two foreign delegations.
  • (13) The media mogul said he had spoken "very carefully under oath" at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday, when he had said that Brown had pledged to "declare war" on his company in a phone call made at around the time the Sun came out in support of the Conservative party, on 30 September of that year.
  • (14) The linguistic performances of 15 noninstitutionalized and 15 institutionalized retarded children were compared on usage of grammatical categories and structure of spoken language (Length--Complexity Index) and for underlying subskills (Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities).
  • (15) Other defendants had earlier spoken of a more difficult time in prison, with one claiming to journalists from inside the defendants' cage that they had almost all been tortured.
  • (16) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
  • (17) The contract envisaged freeing up staff time by moving to a ‘self-service’ model where, for example, residents send their own faxes and book their own visits.” The report also discloses that the kiosks are being used by detainees to order their food and can be used in the languages most commonly spoken at Yarl’s Wood.
  • (18) I have always spoken to the police and had interesting discussions with them.
  • (19) Since joining, he has spoken at a conference, learnt how to make an animated film and plans to start his own peer-support group.
  • (20) The Observer of the mid-1950s resembled nothing so much as a giant seminar conducted by the soft-spoken and diffident, yet steely, figure of David Astor.