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adj. - Friendly and open and willing to gab; Unwisely speaking too much; Full of trivial conversation.

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  • I could make no reply, indeed I hardly spoke another word the rest of the evening; so little talkative is the fulness of contentment.
  • He hasn't what you may call a talkative temperament.
  • I should be called talkative indeed if I should attempt to develope the
  • Basile shot the breeze with me for a time, but he isn't what you'd call talkative, you know.
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