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wordy::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy |
| Derivation | wordiness |
newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials.
proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes.
Examples of wordy
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My heart sinks and my mind switches off when I see wordy, bullet-pointed slides.
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Angeline Evans is an avid consumer and creator of all things wordy and written.
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Some inaugural addresses were lost in wordy flights of orotund meaninglessness.
From the suntimes.com
Wordy hooks and brief hooks don't take up the same amount of space on MainPage.
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You don't want to pore over a lengthy menu with wordy descriptions of every dish.
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He's long been accused of being too wordy and forming his own coach-happy lexicon.
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The style is wordy and involved, loaded with metaphor and bizarre expressions.
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At times his wordy compositions come off sounding like secondhand Springsteen.
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The woolly and wordy frontman led the band through a radically rethought set list.
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- Long-winded: using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"
- (wordily) verbosely: in a verbose manner; "she explained her ideas verbosely"
- (wordiness) prolixity: boring verbosity
- Wordiness is the use of more words than necessary. As it makes a text slightly harder to read, it is usually discouraged. Blaise Pascal wrote to his cousin in apology, "I have made this letter longer because I have not had time to make it shorter".
- Using an excessive number of words
- (wordiness) The excessive, often unnecessary, use of words in a sentence
