talkier; talkiest
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: containing too much talk
Examples of talky in a Sentence
She was in a talky mood.
a talky coworker who will corner you at your desk for hours with stories about his vacation
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Which is not to say the series, while talky, gets bogged down in philosophical abstraction.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
The ghost is talky, with parentheticals and exclamation points.
—Nick Ripatrazone, Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
Written by Ed Solomon, who collaborated with Soderbergh on the twisty neo-noir No Sudden Move as well as the TV series Mosaic and Full Circle, the film is a talky chamber piece that’s virtually a two-hander and could just as easily have been a play.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
An early scene, a party at the home of an up-for-tenure Yale professor played by Julia Roberts, is filled with that kind of thinky-talky dialogue.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
The ghost is talky, with parentheticals and exclamation points.
—Nick Ripatrazone, Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
Written by Ed Solomon, who collaborated with Soderbergh on the twisty neo-noir No Sudden Move as well as the TV series Mosaic and Full Circle, the film is a talky chamber piece that’s virtually a two-hander and could just as easily have been a play.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
An early scene, a party at the home of an up-for-tenure Yale professor played by Julia Roberts, is filled with that kind of thinky-talky dialogue.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for talky
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“Talky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talky. Accessed 12 Dec. 2025.
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