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Dictionary translations for "avare de paroles"

avare de paroles adjective

avare de paroles / avare de paroles / avares de paroles / avares de paroles

laconic [ləˈkɔnɪk] (locution adjectivale, caractéristique psychologique)

brief [bri:f]

Contexts with "avare de paroles"

Nancy est avare de sourires. Nancy is economical with her smiles.

Comme c'est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits au contraire ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire. Just as it is the tendency of great minds to make one hear much with few words, small minds have a talent for talking a lot, and saying nothing.

Il a lu dans mes paroles un message que je n'avais pas prévu. He read into my words a message that I hadn't intended.

Il était une fois un vieil homme avare qui vivait au village. Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.

Ce furent ses paroles exactes. Those were his actual words.

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