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conversationless

Definitions

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  • adjective Without conversation.

Etymologies

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conversation +‎ -less

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Examples

  • And so they were married, and went to the thriving city of Indianapolis to live, and Hannah Winter was so busy with her new household goods, and the linens, and the wine-coloured silk and its less magnificent satellites, that it was almost a fortnight before she realized fully that this solid young man, Hermie Slocum, was not only solid but immovable; not merely thrifty, but stingy; not alone taciturn but quite conversationless.

    Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

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