Both Uses of
voluble
in
Babbitt
- He did not know a malaria-bearing mosquito from a bat; he knew nothing about tests of drinking water; and in the matters of plumbing and sewage he was as unlearned as he was voluble.†
Chpt 4 *
- All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(voluble) marked by a ready flow of speech