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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This talky dramedy finds the film’s three top-tier actors Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider marooned just off the New England coast in 1974.
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Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Mar. 2026
There’s a facile critical tendency to liken a wide range of talky and small-scale dramas to the films of Éric Rohmer.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
Kill Bill slows down in its talkier second half.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
Which is not to say the series, while talky, gets bogged down in philosophical abstraction.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Mar. 2026
There’s a facile critical tendency to liken a wide range of talky and small-scale dramas to the films of Éric Rohmer.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
Kill Bill slows down in its talkier second half.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
Which is not to say the series, while talky, gets bogged down in philosophical abstraction.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 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 15 Mar. 2026.
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