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Loquacious   /loʊkwˈeɪʃəs/   Listen
adjective
Loquacious  adj.  
1.
Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous. "Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong."
2.
Speaking; expressive. (R.)
3.
Apt to blab and disclose secrets.
Synonyms: Garrulous; talkative. See Garrulous.





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"Loquacious" Quotes from Famous Books



... Such loquacious witchery fitted him for the Congress. Elected to the House, he was immediately greeted by connoisseurs of the best stamp— President Martin van Buren, "prince of good fellows;" Webster, another intellect, saturnine in repose and mercurial in activity; the convivial ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
... obtaining full vengeance, the dwarf determined to punish Loki by sewing his lips together, and as his sword would not pierce them, he borrowed his brother's awl for the purpose. However, Loki, after enduring the gods' gibes in silence for a little while, managed to cut the string and soon after was as loquacious ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber
... peculiarly liable. To be sure, he was not without his eccentricities. He was absent-mindedly careless in his attire, unusual in his hours of waking and sleeping, odd in his habits of work, ludicrously ignorant of the value of money, solitary, prone to whims, by turns reticent and loquacious. But for all his eccentricities, De Quincey—unlike Poe, for example—is not a possible object for pity or patronage; they would be foolish who could doubt his word or mistrust his motives. He was "queer," as most great Englishmen of letters of his time were; but the more his ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various
... not be out of place. Too much talking has been done by those only who have a theoretical knowledge of money and its eccentric habits. People with a mere smattering of knowledge regarding national currency have been loquacious, while those who have made the matter a study, have been ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... Age who has many worse things than this to answer for, has struck in and felled and graded and curbed, till now one can ascend the mountain as safely as he goes to market. I consider this road one of the greatest triumphs of that heavily responsible spirit. Loquacious lovers of the "romantic" lament the absence of danger and its excitements, and the road does indeed lie open to that objection. He who in these latter days would earn a reputation for enterprise—and I fancy the love ...
— Gala-days • Gail Hamilton


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