happy talk
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Dr. Sandwith soon afterwards ran out to the excited chattering group in the garden, and after a few minutes' happy talk with him, Harry spoke to him of the visitors."
- ""Maybe the public is waking up and getting skeptical about simple public relations, effortless, happy-talk rhetoric," he said."
- "Clinton's upbeat tone marked his passage from econo-pessimist to cheerleader. Some observers give new mediameister David R. Gergen, who learned happy talk at the knee of Ronald Reagan, credit for the shift."
- ""Now have there been missteps? Of course." Among them, he admits, Dick Cheney's happy talk about the insurgency in Iraq being in its "last throes.""
- "Even BP fall guy Tony Hayward, after some early happy talk, admitted that the spill was an "environmental catastrophe.""