expose pecker, forthright outspeaking, cogent,

La raison probante (The Cogent Reason), a woodcut from the series Intimités (1898)

The headline was the work of Hayley Miller, a HuffPost reporter in New York.

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The spirit of Dr. Middleton, as Clara felt, had been blown into Vernon, rewarding him for forthright outspeaking.




In the 1960s and early 1970s, as socialism advanced around the world and capitalism seemed increasingly under siege, Milton Friedman offered the most cogent and passionate defence of the idea that free markets and free peoples are not only more efficient than centrally planned systems but morally superior.

pecker

Dictionary result for pecker

/ˈpɛkə/

noun

VULGAR SLANG•NORTH AMERICAN

1. a man's penis.

òut・spéak

v., -spoke (-spōk'), -spo·ken (-spō'kən), -speak·ing, -speaks. v.tr. Archaic
To speak better or more cogently than (another).

v.intr.
To speak out.

[動]（-spoke, -spoken）(他)

1 …を言い負かす.

2 …を大胆［率直］に言う.

━━(自)はっきり意見を述べる, 大声で言う.


 cogent
 (kō'jənt)
adj.
Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; convincing: a cogent argument. See synonyms at valid.

(of an argument or case) clear, logical, and convincing.

"they put forward cogent arguments for British membership"

[Latin cōgēns, cōgent-, present participle of cōgere, to force : co-, co- + agere, to drive.]

cogency co'gen·cy (-jən-sē) n.
cogently co'gent·ly adv.

cogent[co・gent]

 

• 発音記号[kóudʒənt]
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[形]

1 ((形式))〈理論・議論などが〉説得力のある.

2 適切な, 的を射た.

［△COGITATE］

co・gent・ly

[副]なるほどと思わせるように；力強く.