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garrulous
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  • She lingered for a few moments, and was garrulous over some detail of the household.†  (source)
  • I'm afraid you find me a very garrulous old man.†  (source)
  • He could obey orders, and he was neither curious nor garrulous.†  (source)
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  • She spoke of the Italian character; she became almost garrulous over the incident that had made her faint five minutes before.†  (source)
  • Lady Wetherby was feeling perfectly happy now, and when Lady Wetherby felt happy she always became garrulous.†  (source)
  • Dinah gave a very garrulous version of it, to which Tom added the particulars which he had drawn from her that morning.†  (source)
  • One day the elder Pokrovski came to see us, and chattered in a brisk, cheerful, garrulous sort of way.†  (source)
  • My heart fairly beat for joy; for, to own the truth, I was getting to be wearied to death with the garrulous folly of my companions.†  (source)
  • The small, bald man was not only garrulously instructive, but in his own way mesmerizing.†  (source)
    garrulously = in a talkative manner
  • He felt a garrulousness coming on him and he was frightened at the impulse.†  (source)
    garrulousness = talkativeness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • When I had dressed and opened the door, I heard the waves still lapping on the beach, garrulously attesting the fury of the night.†  (source)
    garrulously = in a talkative manner
  • Usually you have to be polite to my garrulousness, but now I'm sitting at your feet.†  (source)
    garrulousness = talkativeness
  • "I have, good sir," she answered garrulously.†  (source)
    garrulously = in a talkative manner
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