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an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language- She writes beautiful songs with colloquial lyrics that touch the heart.
colloquial = an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language
- He talked with richness and depth without loosing his colloquial charm.
- My choices of language (...colloquial),Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
- (Colloquially) Little cooler than it was.Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
- Brilliant, but he was . . . what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up.Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
- ...the immediate apprehension of a broken neck, would, in the colloquial phrase, put him in a state.Joseph Conrad -- The Secret Agent
- wrote her letters in a colloquial style
- Our colloquial term for this is that we're a multimedia cathedral.Michael Novak
- I have relied on Chen's colloquial translation of many things, including the Tang dynasty poem that Lily and Snow Flower wrote on each other's bodies.Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- On the other hand it is not concerned with fake simplicity and the attempt to make written English colloquial.George Orwell -- Politics and the English Language
- He is much more a man of fuzziness and feelings, feelings are his cup of tea, so to speak—if you'll forgive me the colloquial phrase.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- "Can't, might set the black damp off," the old miner said, using the colloquial term for methane.Homer Hickam -- October Sky
- I have known eager opponents of democracy who allowed their children to address them with perfect colloquial equality.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- I didn't know what to make of his gesture save its unorthodoxy, its colloquial and unprofessional tone.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- Salander is, to put it in colloquial terms, stark raving mad.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- A colloquial density that makes family life the one medium of sense knowledge in which an astonishment of heart is routinely contained.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- Well, it was a colloquial expression, Charlie would say.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- The final part of Indoc involved boats-the fabled IBS (inflatable boat, small) or, colloquially, itty-bitty ship.Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
- For some little time the jurymen hang about the Sol's Arms colloquially.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
colloquial = an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language
colloquially = in an informal style
colloquial = an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language