sharp-spoken

“Your sharp-spoken Tarnian wife has given you no children during your six years of marriage, and for some time you have secretly despised her.”

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

"Everybody is well, thank you," primly replied Austin; for he was always a little afraid of his sharp-spoken grandmother.

The Hero of Hill House Mabel Hale

So Eudoxie partly undressed in the sunshine, and wrapped her in her own frock, while she ran to beg a change of clothes from the sharp-spoken

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

And you'll be in your own house, instead of under Squire Boarders and his sharp-spoken wife.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

Most sharp-spoken people appreciate someone who is not afraid to stand up to them, and

The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

Somo, who was as lean about the middle and all the rest of her as her husband was rotund; who was as remarkably sharp-spoken as he was soft-spoken; who was as ceaselessly energetic as he was unceasingly idle; and who had been born with a taste for the world as sour in her mouth as it was sweet in his.

Chapter 13 1917

The two doctors at the hunting-lodge, round, sharp-spoken men, with big, near-sighted spectacles, rubbed their hands together and nodded with certainty when they held their daily consultations.

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

One day the captain and the doctor were gone till night up across the high land where the town had seemed to be, and they came back at night beat out and white as ashes, and wrote and wrote all next day in their notebooks, and whispered together full of excitement, and they were sharp-spoken with the men when they offered to ask any questions.

The Waiting Place 1910

I'd quit at the mat, though, and was slopin 'down the front steps, when I'm held up by this sharp-spoken old girl with the fam'ly umbrella and the string bonnet.

Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907

Two minutes afterwards, he begged my pardon for those sharp-spoken words.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897