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noun
Wordiness  n.  The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Wordiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... about. McGregor was so irritated by what he took to be the wordiness of the man that he could not restrain himself. He felt as he had felt when the socialist orator talked on the streets of Coal Creek. With an oath he arose and kicked out his foot to push his chair away. The pad of paper fell out of the large girl's lap and scattered its leaves about the ...
— Marching Men • Sherwood Anderson
... and Ballads, it must be admitted, owed its success for many years to other things besides the music. It broke in upon the bourgeois moralities of nineteenth-century England like a defiance. It expressed in gorgeous wordiness the mood of every green-sick youth of imagination who sees that beauty is being banished from the world in the name of goodness. One has only to look at the grey and yellow and purple brick houses built during the reign of Victoria to see that the green-sick youth ...
— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd


Words linked to "Wordiness" :   verboseness, wordy, windiness, turgidity, prolixness, long-windedness, prolix


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