What's the difference between mouthy and talkative?

Mouthy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) British viewers who associate Corden, not always fondly, with mouthy, occasionally off-colour jokes may be surprised by the version that introduces himself to Americans, judging by what he recently told the Television Critics Association.
  • (2) It was just banished to the bleachers if it was mouthy.
  • (3) Suddenly you are in a school and you have a group of mouthy young people who don’t want you there.” Fergal Moane, another career changer, initially found the switch from investment banking to teaching “disorientating”, not least because of the 92% pay cut.
  • (4) He got drunk and mouthy one night, and ended up in a police cell.
  • (5) She has been direct, mouthy, and at times very funny.
  • (6) Bolt accused the communications minister Malcolm Turnbull of perpetrating dark treachery to Tony Abbott, then blamed Turnbull for being mouthy when Turnbull (who isn't actually pursuing treachery) attempted to defend his honour.
  • (7) In Juno, Page plays the eponymous heroine, a mouthy 16-year-old named, as the character is at pains to put it, not after the town in Alaska, but in homage to Zeus's wife: "Supposedly she was beautiful and really mean.
  • (8) You may not understand what she is saying, but this mouthy student at the Central Academy of Film is clearly offering Chinese people something they crave.
  • (9) Her part as new companion Bill Potts is “quite chatty, a bit mouthy, sometimes says the wrong thing… She questions things that haven’t been questioned in a really long time, which is fun.” Bill will also be openly gay.
  • (10) "I've always been called 'mouthy'," says Lily, "when, in fact, I'm just talking.
  • (11) It is a question that exercises the minds of his many detractors in the art world: how did a mouthy, working-class lad from Leeds, with hooligan tendencies, become the biggest – and the richest – artist on the planet?
  • (12) Maybe Allen's notorious mouthiness will get people thinking differently, perhaps even prompt a reconsideration of how to bring up baby.
  • (13) But people don't tend to be super mouthy and super show-offy, because that's really frowned upon in Sheffield – you do that in the pub, they'll chuck you out and say 'go away, you nightmare'.
  • (14) I like Allen's voice and presence and mouthiness, but I don't like racism.
  • (15) Even mouthy entrepreneurs and hedge fund managers know deep down they are better off in.
  • (16) Like Galloway, she survives by being a mouthy populist whose outspokenness her constituents may admire more than despise.

Talkative


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to much talking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
  • (2) When talkativeness is not resisted by the group it is tentative evidence that the talker is perceived as an appropriate, qualified, and legitimate leader.
  • (3) Mostly Nick was uncommunicative and occasionally he’d become talkative and you hung on his every word even though, very often, one didn’t know what they meant because he’d talk in riddles.
  • (4) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
  • (5) Findings were that hyperactive children were more spontaneously talkative than their classmates during transitions and nonverbal tasks (nonelicited conditions) but were less talkative when they were asked to tell stories (elicited conditions).
  • (6) Role-playing by selected drama students and community theatre actors involves common problems encountered in the optometrist's office and management of problem patients (angry, aggressive, shy, withdrawn, talkative, flirt, hypocondriac, etc.
  • (7) The mental state was characterized by an expressed mental retardation with some special traits: relatively well developed speech, talkativeness, good-naturedness, an euphoric mood, inactivity and poor motor functioning.
  • (8) Lorna Wing, author of the first classic papers on full-spectrum autism, was herself the mother of an autistic daughter, Susie: “Parents … tend to overlook or reject the idea of autism for their socially gauche, naive, talkative, clumsy child,” she wrote.
  • (9) What was astonishing about Day-Lewis's Bafta acceptance speech was how calm and talkative he seemed.
  • (10) But a minor Waitrose-related spat broke out in Westminster on Thursday, with David Cameron accused of elitism as he expressed the personal view that its shoppers tended to be more talkative and "engaged" than customers of other supermarkets.
  • (11) Mosshart is far more sunny and talkative than her onstage image as the love child of Patti Smith and Johnny Thunders suggests.
  • (12) Multiple measures of family adaptability, cohesion, and talkativeness were administered to two family members (insiders) and two significant others (outsiders).
  • (13) Visual analogue scales showed subjective drug effects: pentazocine made the volunteers talkative, contented, interested and energetic, whilst codeine rendered them mentally slow.
  • (14) We assess the hierarchical relations between traits differing in breadth, using a task in which subjects select the most meaningful of two statements, such as "To be talkative is a way of being extroverted" versus "To be extroverted is a way of being talkative."
  • (15) Two longitudinal studies of 2-year-old children who were extreme in the display of either behavioral restraint or spontaneity in unfamiliar contexts revealed that by 7 years of age a majority of the restrained group were quiet and socially avoidant with unfamiliar children and adults whereas a majority of the more spontaneous children were talkative and interactive.
  • (16) Although Crace describes himself as a "landscape writer", he has always dismissed the British landscape as being "too spoken for, too talkative, too small".
  • (17) Two groups of Type A individuals were found--one that was repressed, tense, and illness-prone, but another that was healthy, talkative, in control, and charismatic.
  • (18) I love its friendly, multiracial, talkative people.
  • (19) Telephone companies sent out warning letters to customers they thought were too talkative.
  • (20) It may look a silly, over-talkative film now – and there are Taylor pictures where the sheer visual glory has dated comically – until you let the story melt away and just gaze at her: in Ivanhoe, say, or Beau Brummell, or The Sandpiper or The Last Time I Saw Paris.