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Speak up

verb

Express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation. Synonyms: animadvert, opine, sound off, speak out.

Speak louder; raise one's voice.

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"Speak up" Quotes from Famous Books

... his father, who had been whispering with him all this time, "speak up; you may be grieved to disappoint a once-friendly companion, but you could not help the defect ...

— The Lances of Lynwood • Charlotte M. Yonge

... himself in the full glare of the foot-lights, and looking before him saw the mass of expectant faces which rose, rank behind rank, half-way to the ceiling, his head went round, his brain became confused, and his first sentence was inaudible. "Speak up!" said Miss Clarissa in a loud whisper, and he uttered, "And have you no ambition?" in a louder key indeed, but in trembling accents, and standing more like a boy saying ...

— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough

... "writers." It would take a statistician versed in all manner of mysteries and calculations to tell how many people have been deluded by this stuff, and how much money has been nuzzled out of them. The time was certainly here for someone in a position to tell the truth to speak up. ...

— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... applied for advice to these seven nobles, Memucan was the first to speak up, though in rank he was inferior to the other six, as appears from the place his name occupies in the list. However, it is customary, as well among Persians as among Jews, in passing death sentence, to ...

— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

... you get," Consenting, he did speak up; "'Tis better you should eat it, pet, Than put it ...

— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce

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