(a.) Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.
(a.) Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.
Example Sentences:
(1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
(2) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
(3) More blokey and garrulous, less abrasive and boorish, Farage narrowed the focus to Europe and, by doing so, widened the far right’s appeal.
(4) During the first week or two of his leadership he will be faced with the allegation – promoted by cynical Tory newspapers and garrulous Labour ancients – that he wants to take Labour back to the days of wholesale public ownership and subservience to the trade unions.
(5) If garrulousness was an Olympic sport, he would have a gold medal.
(6) Opposite her sits a garrulous fellow called Barry, who looks like he could be an old mate of Ozzy Osbourne, finds everything funny, keeps mouthing "I love you" at me, and is here in his capacity as her newly appointed manager and agent.
(7) Relaxing in his opulent Thames-side penthouse apartment, the only BBC presenter to be openly critical of the former BBC Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas in the wake of the "Sachsgate" affair is as garrulous as ever.
(8) This is an old-fashioned guesthouse up the hill from the glitzy beach resorts and has a breakfast terrace and big pool with views over Camps Bay and its immense mountain backdrop, a comfy lounge and honesty bar – which is often presided over by the garrulous owner, Bernie.
(9) Scalia was, as usual, the episode's garish, garrulous villain, the kind of lusty misanthrope the word "harrumph" erupts from.
(10) In late June 2013, Christopher Catrambone, a garrulous 31-year-old American entrepreneur who had spent almost a decade travelling the world to build a multimillion-dollar company, decided to take a break.
(11) His position in the American canon is secure, however, and rests on a slender collection of immortal stories and one enduring masterpiece of a novel whose garrulous anguish makes him, in the words of writer Gish Jen "the avatar of American authenticity", a boy for all seasons.
(12) If they are looking to appoint a former manager, Tim Sherwood is garrulous and unemployed, Brendan Rodgers knows all the modern football jargon and David Moyes is back in the UK .
(13) Candidates are fat, skinny, tall, short, introspective, garrulous, southern-fried or blustery Yankee; the contrasts pop off the screen.
(14) If it seems a little incongruous for such a notably garrulous figure to work in such isolation, it's perhaps also worth considering that Lalas is a polarising figure within American soccer – certainly among the fans who attend games live, and who know him not just as the most recognizable face of the USA 1994 home World Cup team but as a three-time general manager (for the Galaxy, Earthquakes and what is now the Red Bulls) turned opinionated pundit.
(15) There were no histrionics or garrulous jokes – just a final sentence which, in a few rather sheepish words, spoke volumes.
(16) But on Saturday the ExCeL arena produced a coming-together of a more parochial nature as British and Irish boxers Luke Campbell of Hull and John Joe Nevin of Mullingar fought for the men's bantam gold before a thrillingly loud and agreeably garrulous UK-Irish crowd.
(17) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” You may ask, Where were the interrogators after installing the detainee in the frozen room?
(18) But if it's history as interpreted by architecture that does this, it's also the garrulous intentionality of the architect.
(19) More recent research has underlined the garrulous nature of violent extremists.
(20) Behind the high steel fences of the Manus Island detention centre, his health is often poor, his moods swing dramatically, from a wild, garrulous mania to black and shiftless depression.
Verbose
Definition:
(a.) Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(2) There was significant agreement between the qualitative classification and the quantitative rating assessments of verbosity.
(3) It has been established that verbosity, vagueness of definition and inadequate differentiation of the main and secondary signs are objectively manifested in the schizophrenic patients in an increase of a relative richness of vocabulary and of the proportion of rarely used words.
(4) Verbal expression may range from total lack of language to verbosity with echolalia; comprehension and language use are invariably impaired.
(5) Two studies were conducted to develop measures of verbosity in elderly people and to determine the social and psychological correlates of verbose speech.
(6) Interrater reliability was established at .76 and .70 for the two measures of verbosity.
(7) In addition to the previously found associations between verbosity and personality and social variables, higher nonverbal intellectual performance scores obtained in the early adult years combined with poorer current nonverbal scores predicted verbosity in late life.
(8) I know what six hours of suppressed verbosity sounds like: it sounds like a heart breaking.
(9) A tendency for allusive thinkers to be more verbose than non-allusive thinkers was also noted.
(10) Nicknamed "Save Rome", that decree had become so bogged down in a verbose and venomous parliamentary process that Matteo Renzi's new administration withdrew it and said it would find a new way of helping the Rome authorities plug an €816m hole in their budget.
(11) Four older epileptic patients with long histories of left complex partial seizures were verbose.
(12) Twitter isn't for the verbose: Marcel Proust could never have tweeted.
(13) Control subjects demonstrated superior performance on all receptive language and child verbosity measures despite their younger age.
(14) The multiple correlations of these deficit measures with 15 of the Sixteen Personality Factor scales and a measure of verbosity were determined in a sample of 100 schizophrenics.
(15) A quantitative examination of the knowledge base of BLOOD using real laboratory data from 58 patients diagnosed as having iron deficiency anemia clearly revealed the verbosity of the knowledge base, and proved that it was effective for obtaining a group of essential diagnostic rules.
(16) Upon reflection, it appears that at this stageI may have been worried I did not have enough material for a 20-month serialisation as some of the story-telling does seem unnecessarily verbose, but some while later with Mr Micawber out of prison, I left my job and walked to Dover to live with my great-aunt, whom I had never once met seen since the day of my birth.
(17) They allowed unnecessary verbosity from the witnesses.
(18) Meanwhile, the leadership’s surreally verbose outrider Ken Livingstone is characteristically upfront: “People” – and, obviously, he means his people – “have got a right to a candidate they agree with,” he says .
(19) While the traditional music press, most notably the NME, became ever more verbose and sullen and rarefied in response - this was a time when it couldn’t review the new Shakin’ Stevens single without mentioning Roland Barthes, Wyndham Lewis and Ingmar Bergman’s Sommaren med Monika - Smash Hits truly understood what pop music was about.
(20) Verbosity, however, may permit inferences regarding potential verbal behavior.