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  • adjective superlative form of talky: most talky.

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Examples

  • A one-act show performed on a single set by five singing actors and accompanied by four virtuoso instrumentalists, it takes one of Shaw's talkiest plays, a study of what in 1894 would have been called a "modern" marriage, and transfuses it with the hot blood of pure lyricism.

    George Bernard Shaw, With Passion Terry Teachout 2011

  • They are cartoony, but they're some of the talkiest cartoons ever made, and talkiness is actually not incompatible with cartooniness.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • It may actually have been the talkiest cartoon of its era, and the most self-referential; long stretches of dialogue would literally be devoted to analyzing the events of the episode, and the non-Taz characters couldn't do anything without commenting on what they were doing.

    Taz-Mania Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • They are cartoony, but they're some of the talkiest cartoons ever made, and talkiness is actually not incompatible with cartooniness.

    The Talkier The Better Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • It may actually have been the talkiest cartoon of its era, and the most self-referential; long stretches of dialogue would literally be devoted to analyzing the events of the episode, and the non-Taz characters couldn't do anything without commenting on what they were doing.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • Marv Wolfman must have been paid by the word, in this, the talkiest comic I own.

    Comics’ Wackiest Crossovers: The Marvel Edition Brian Hughes 2006

  • Marv Wolfman must have been paid by the word, in this, the talkiest comic I own.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Brian Hughes 2006

  • Well, I don't know; maybe he might have been satisfied if it hadn't been for old Nat Parsons, which was postmaster, and powerful long and slim, and kind o 'good-hearted and silly, and bald-headed, on account of his age, and about the talkiest old cretur I ever see.

    Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894

  • Well, I don't know; maybe he might have been satisfied if it hadn't been for old Nat Parsons, which was postmaster, and powerful long and slim, and kind o 'good-hearted and silly, and bald-headed, on account of his age, and about the talkiest old cretur I ever see.

    Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 1872

  • This may rank as Lloyd Newson's talkiest project to-date, even though there's never a dull minute, movement-wise.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Dominic Cavendish 2011

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