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Lengthy   /lˈɛŋθi/   Listen
Lengthy

adjective
(compar. lengthier; superl. lengthiest)
1.
Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted.  Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, prolonged, protracted.  "An extended discussion" , "A lengthy visit from her mother-in-law" , "A prolonged and bitter struggle" , "Protracted negotiations"






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"Lengthy" Quotes from Famous Books



... before the Princess de Ligne, at her chateau at Teplitz, 1791. There is a treatise in Italian, Delle Passioni; there are long dialogues, such as Le Philosophe et le Theologien, and Reve: Dieu-Moi; there is the Songe d'un Quart d'Heure, divided into minutes; there is the very lengthy criticism of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre; there is the Confutation d'une Censure indiscrete qu'on lit dans la Gazette de Iena, 19 Juin 1789; with another large manuscript, unfortunately imperfect, first called L'Insulte, and then Placet au Public, dated 'Dux, this 2nd March, 1790,' referring ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... There had been lengthy argument concerning the new name. Three Star, so Soda-Water Sam—whose nickname was satirical—opined, smacked of the saloon rather than the ranch, but it was finally decided on ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... took a lengthy draught. "Broken my promise; don't matter—won't hurt any one but me." He took up the pipe and pressed tobacco into it. "I've been lying here with this pain going right through me, and never a smoke! ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... settled during the first wave of extrasolar colonization, after the Fourth World—or First Interplanetary—War. Some time around 2100. The settlers had come from a place in North America called Texas, one of the old United States. They had a lengthy history—independent republic, admission to the United States, secession from the United States, reconquest by the United States, and general intransigence under the United States, the United Nations and the Solar League. ...
— Lone Star Planet • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

... lived untroubled, and his digestion improved on his light diet of roots and herbs, and his loving-kindness was infinite, because he could not now be angry with the pitiable creatures haled before him, when he considered what lengthy and ingenious torments awaited every one of them, either in hell or purgatory, while Ferdinand would be playing a gold harp ...
— Figures of Earth • James Branch Cabell


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