(a.) Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.
(a.) Speaking; expressive.
(a.) Apt to blab and disclose secrets.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of his advisers, Jen Psaki, said last week: "The president is familiar with his own loquaciousness and his tendency to give long, substantive answers."
(2) During his last trip to China in 2013, the loquacious London mayor bamboozled Chinese interpreters with his use of words such as polymorphous and joked about his Bullingdon Club days to a senior Communist party leader.
(3) They outsourced much of the press publicity to guest performers such as Pharrell Williams and the loquacious Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
(4) Aso, a loquacious politician with a knack for verbal blunders, vowed to put his gaffe-prone past behind him when he became leader two months ago.
(5) This is leaving both young people and businesses without the skills they need to succeed for the future.” Analysis: On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the normally loquacious shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, seemed to lose his sure touch when Sarah Montague questioned him on the figures.
(6) With his rotund figure, swarthy complexion, harrumphing manner, horn-rimmed spectacles, transatlantic tones and tendency to lurk loquaciously about the aisles at the interval, he was a familiar figure at West End openings.
(7) Anecdotal reports suggest that children with Williams syndrome are loquacious, affectionate, charming, open, and gentle.
(8) An hour in his company confirms all three characteristics, and "loquacious" and "political" must have been close contenders for inclusion too.
(9) The loquacious “ginger one from Super Saturday” whose dad recently built him a long jump pit in his back garden, now keeps the most exalted of company.
(10) A previous study demonstrated the existence in these patients of a syndrome of mildly elevated psychomotor rate, including irritability, grandiosity, an increased need for social contact, loquaciousness, and sexual preoccupation.
(11) This study found that the deaf children responded more loquaciously to questions than they did to statements or expressions of ideas; and the children did not have success in continuing topics of conversation.
(12) In 2007, I spent a deliriously enjoyable hour talking to Denis Healey, who was about to turn 90 - and may not have been quite as loquacious as when he was in charge of the UK economy, but still delivered, in spades.
(13) And while both vied for the White House as crusading liberal outsiders fueled by big rallies and throngs of youthful supporters, Jackson in 1984 was the loquacious, nationally known, media-anointed heir to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, at a time when Sanders, exactly one month Jackson’s senior, was the rumpled, twice-elected socialist-independent mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
(14) "ISI extols the virtues of some Taliban elements" read one small headline that provided no other details; otherwise loquacious television anchors were largely silent on the matter.
(15) Irish actor Saoirse Ronan lamented her loquaciousness recently after revealing her audition publicly, only to be told she had not won a part.
(16) The loquacious Ulsterman was a right-half like "Billy Nick", but there the resemblance ended.
(17) In recent meetings George Osborne, the normally loquacious chancellor, was said to have gone quiet, possibly tongue-tied by being the one who hired Coulson in the first place.
(18) Williams syndrome is associated with intellectual and growth retardation, infantile feeding problems which may be associated with hypercalcaemia, cardiovascular abnormalities, a friendly, loquacious personality, and a typical facies.
Raconteur
Definition:
(n.) A relater; a storyteller.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the meantime we had to share the Raconteurs' bus.
(2) This is typical Hampton: down to earth (he insists his only luxury is a yacht soon to be transferred from its mooring in Menorca to the south coast of England) and a good raconteur.
(3) White was losing his voice to a bout of bronchitis at the time, forcing Mosshart to come on stage and sing White's parts with the Raconteurs for the later dates of the tour.
(4) "Malcolm was a fantastic raconteur, with a brilliant and agile creative mind.
(5) He had to be content with the immense joy that he did give, apparently effortlessly; with being the most consistently funny raconteur of his time, recognised as a peer by virtually all other humorists, such as Frank Muir (obituary, January 3 1998), who called him "one of the best-loved people in the world".
(6) · Petrus Alexandrus (Peter Alexander) Ustinov, writer, actor, raconteur, born April 16 1921; died March 28 2004
(7) He was a film producer, satirist, television pioneer, theatre director, raconteur, wit and public speaker of boundless brio and enthusiasm.
(8) Saki, a big-hearted raconteur who runs Byzantium café, told me that you could nuke the whole of Europe and the two things that would survive would be Greeks and cockroaches.
(9) The relaxed, raconteur style of Hector, the old schoolteacher, was adored by the boys.
(10) He proved himself a brilliant, yet unflashy, raconteur with quite a raffish bohemian past.
(11) Brendan Benson has played down the possibility of a third Raconteurs album, revealing that although most of the band members live in Nashville, they never get together.
(12) I liked that about it, too.” Both Raconteurs albums debuted in the UK’s top 10 and both were awarded gold sales certificates.
(13) So joyous and immense were the hopes that once rested on the actor, raconteur and humanitarian Sir Peter Ustinov, who has died in Switzerland aged 82, that the final balance-sheet of his life was bound to seem an anticlimax, both to himself and to those who saw the skyrocket of his early talent.
(14) Jack White has resumed working with the Dead Weather, the psychedelic rock band featuring Kills singer Alison Mosshart and members of Queens of the Stone Age and the Raconteurs.
(15) And on bass is Jack Lawrence, recognisable not only as a member of the Raconteurs and Cincinnati-based trio the Greenhornes, but also because of his striking resemblance to the Greek singer Nana Mouskouri.
(16) The private LBJ was, by all accounts, the life of the party: funny, mimic, great sense of humour, wonderful raconteur, just a live wire.
(17) But as a new authorised biography reveals, the outrageous performer and raconteur had melancholy secrets that are only now emerging.
(18) His grandfather's sometimes risqué skills as a raconteur were supplemented by the stories Fo heard from other inhabitants of the villages around Lake Maggiore, in northern Italy, where he lived.
(19) Third Man is the home not just to Jack White's groups, the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather, but several no-wave and blues artists like Dan Sartain, Mildred and the Mice, and Transit, a group that comprises employees of the Nashville Metro Transit Authority.
(20) She’s an incredibly gifted as writer and raconteur,” says Cadel, “but I would like to have seen her do more acting.