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loquacious
/loʊˈkweɪʃəs/
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What does loquacious mean?
adjective
- Talkative; chatty.
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/loʊˈkweɪʃəs/
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He is dignified, intelligent, and, though not loquacious, never at a loss for a topic of conversation.
“Let us be doing something,” was his oblique mode of rebuking the loquacious and admonishing the idle.
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If Mrs. Hudson had been loquacious and vulgar, he would have borne even a less valid persecution with greater fortitude.
To whom sad Eve with shame nigh overwhelm’d, Confessing soon, yet not before her Judge Bold or loquacious, thus abasht repli’d.
Peace had the modesty and reticence of the sincere artist; Butler the loquacious vanity of the literary or forensic coxcomb.