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loquacious
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  • Note that a window means your traveling companion may then be stuck next to a spectacularly loquacious bore.†  (source)
  • I don't recall this loquaciousness from her visit in the U.S., and it feels to me like a delaying tactic, like we are circling around the thing she really wants to do—what we will do—and all these words are like a bridge.†  (source)
  • Their leader was Ian Woodall, thirty-nine, a loquaCious, mouselike man who relished telling anecdotes about his brave exploits as a military commando behind enemy lines during South Africa's long, brutal conflict with Angola in the 1980s.†  (source)
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  • To her right was Selma, a loquacious Tunisian.†  (source)
  • Colonel Scheisskopf gave no indication that he did agree, but General Peckem was already too entranced with his own loquacity to notice.†  (source)
  • One thing was a puzzle, though: despite Junior's reported loquaciousness, his grandchildren never formed a very clear picture of him.†  (source)
    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.
  • Adams was warm, loquacious, more personal and opinionated, often humorous and willing to poke fun at himself.†  (source)
  • Coming from the silent streets, they found the old man's loquacity rather irksome at first.†  (source)
  • Yet by his very loquaciousness he guided others straight to the water he sought to hide.†  (source)
  • "This I know very well, O loquacious Vizier," answered the Prince.†  (source)
  • Merely to read the titles suggested innumerable schoolmasters, innumerable clergymen mounting their platforms and pulpits and holding forth with loquacity which far exceeded the hour usually alloted to such discourse on this one subject.†  (source)
  • Still loquacious.†  (source)
  • The sight of such appliances in a drawing-room was not unusual in Lily's set, where smoking and drinking were unrestricted by considerations of time and place, and her first movement was to help herself to one of the cigarettes recommended by Trenor, while she checked his loquacity by asking, with a surprised glance: "Where's Judy?"†  (source)
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