verbal diarrhoea


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verbal diarrhoea

n
informal a tendency to speak at excessive length
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The legislators, who spew verbal diarrhoea about youth and women empowerment every weekend, should stop puking on our boots after overfeeding from our sweat.
Learn to respect ppl who have achieved.i have heard enough of your verbal diarrhoea. @sanjaymanjrekar," Jadeja had tweeted.
Even if you were to run for the office of the Patron Saint of Hatemongering, such uncouth verbal diarrhoea wouldn't get you votes because how will those you intend to kill vote for you?
Politicians have enough ammunition for their public dissertation or verbal diarrhoea. They set in motion pliable propaganda machinery by co-opting, patronizing and even terrorizing the media.
Wasted words leave us with earfuls of verbal diarrhoea. We forget that, in some countries, words are far more valuable, and what you say can be very costly, so people are far more considered about the words they use.
To use a four-letter word like 'turd' is a mark of the man, whose verbal diarrhoea could be as common as muck.
To use a four-letter word like turd, is a mark of the man whose verbal diarrhoea could be as common as muck.
LAOIS boss John Sugrue claimed critics of his team were suffering from 'verbal diarrhoea' in the run up to the weekend.
I shudder to think of the years lost to perusing filtered photos and a barrage of verbal diarrhoea. Then there are the more disturbing - and deadly - results of signing our souls over to social media, a land populated by negative thoughts, trolls and cyber bullying, some of which can destroy lives - and even end them.
I am a big trash talker and sometimes even at formal sort of engagements, I am not able to control my verbal diarrhoea. Abhishek Bachchan and Arjun Kapoor are both big Chelsea fans...
But, evidence is increasingly mounting that this is far more than just a case of poor table manners, or the modern-world techenhanced version of verbal diarrhoea and over-sharing.