characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
"wrote her letters in a colloquial style"
"the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"
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colloquial
Where penury is felt the thought is chained.
And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few. [ Cowper ]
A tendency to slang, to colloquial inelegancies, and even vulgarities, is the besetting sin against which we, as Americans, have especially to guard and to struggle. [ W. D. Whitney ]
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