[
US
/ˈɡɛɹəɫəs/
]
[ UK /ɡˈærjʊləs/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈærjʊləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
full of trivial conversation
kept from her housework by gabby neighbors
How To Use garrulous In A Sentence
- They are basically warm people, albeit a bit garrulous at times with some who profess, quite irritatingly, to be the all-knowing type.
- The cell phone was never envisioned as an instrument of torture that garrulous pinheads could use to inflict pain on their fellow commuters, yet this is what it has become.
- But when I asked him for his opinion of missile-defense programs, the garrulous old scientist suddenly clammed up.
- By his side for most of the time was a bespectacled, softly spoken and garrulous man. Times, Sunday Times
- The garrulous waves ceaselessly talked of hidden treasures, mocking the ignorance that knew not their meaning.
- In many other particulars he enfeebles, dandifies, and sentimentalises Dante's fierce, abrupt tragedy; holding the reader by the button while he prattles in his garrulous way of Paulo's "taste" -- A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
- He is unstintingly enthusiastic, even garrulous. Times, Sunday Times
- He rages with all the garrulous articulacy of the legal autodidact, narrowly educated after years of court cases, appeals and disappointments.
- “Not I,” said I, and sat grimly watching his face under the yellow paraffine flare, as he drank himself into a garrulous misery. The Island of Doctor Moreau
- He was not a man for garrulous name-dropping. Times, Sunday Times