verbosein a sentence
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Her papers tend to be too verbose.
verbose = wordy (using too many words)
- In a comparison, sample "A" is too verbose, but sample "B" is too ambiguous.
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I completed a first draft. Now I want to make it less verbose.
verbose = wordy (with too many words)
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The programming language is verbose--making it easier to read, but harder for an expert to grasp the big picture.
verbose = wordy (using many words)
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I know I'm kind of infamous for my …. um …. verbosity ….
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verbosity = wordiness (tendency to use too many words)
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Neither of us was what anyone would call verbose, and I didn't know what there was to say regardless.
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verbose = inclined to use a lot of words
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He seemed fond of his grandmother and used to her, but her verbosity produced in him a kind of soberly observant speechlessness.
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verbosity = wordiness (tendency to use too many words)
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-if my sister was long-winded on the phone, her e-mails were equally verbose.
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verbose = wordy (using or containing too many words)
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Never verbose in social gatherings even in his own language, "the good doctor" sat in the salons of Paris, looking on benevolently, a glass of champagne in hand, rarely saying anything.
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verbose = wordy (using many words)
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Some might question the amount of extraneous detail concerning the subject's early life, but there was method in the authors' verbosity.
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verbosity = wordiness (tendency to use many words)
- A large, overstocked wagon belonging to John stood in front of the foreman's shack, the driver equally as big as Mr. Williamson, and equally verbose.† (source)
- Yet another round in the endless verbosity about the Accords.† (source)
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- Observers have described Charlestonians as vainglorious, obstinate, mercurial, verbose, xenophobic, and congenitally gracious.† (source)
- The result was livelier but still too verbose.† (source)
- His struggles against this temptation, his iterations of "I'm no good, and, "I'm the son he set least store by, but I'm the one that cares for him the most, and the voices of the women, soothing him, trying to quiet him, only added to his tears, the richness of his emotions, and his verbosity, and before long he had realized that this too was useful, and was using it.† (source)
- There was evidently not space enough for his drunken verbosity and Mitya not only filled the margins but had written the last line right across the rest.† (source)
- Tolstoy then makes a sort of exposition of the plot of KING LEAR, finding it at every step to be stupid, verbose, unnatural, unintelligible, bombastic, vulgar, tedious and full of incredible events, "wild ravings", "mirthless jokes", anachronisms, irrelevancies, obscenities, worn-out stage conventions and other faults both moral and aesthetic.† (source)
- He grinned when I handed it over, yet it was a grin that contained more sincere thanks than a multitude of the verbosities of speech common to the members of my own class.† (source)
- What he had to say was confused, halting, and verbose; but Philip knew the words which served as the text of his rambling discourse.† (source)
- His colleague was silent, having just before privately received a severe lecture about his emetic, so that this good Canivet, so arrogant and so verbose at the time of the clubfoot, was to-day very modest.† (source)
- The persecutors denied that there was any particular gift in Mr. Chadband's piling verbose flights of stairs, one upon another, after this fashion.† (source)
- Levin smiled joyfully; he was struck by this transition from the confused, verbose discussion with Pestsov and his brother to this laconic, clear, almost wordless communication of the most complex ideas.† (source)
- He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.† (source)
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