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[ US /ˈɡɛɹəɫəs/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈærjʊləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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