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Her papers tend to be too verbose.verbose = wordy (using too many words)
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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 …. (source)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. (source)verbose = inclined to use a lot of words
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-if my sister was long-winded on the phone, her e-mails were equally verbose. (source)verbose = wordy (using or containing too many 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. (source)verbosity = wordiness (tendency to use too many words)
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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)
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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. (source)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. (source)verbosity = wordiness (tendency to use many words)
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The result was livelier but still too verbose.† (source)
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Yet another round in the endless verbosity about the Accords.† (source)verbosity = wordiness (tendency to use too many words)
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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)
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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)
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Observers have described Charlestonians as vainglorious, obstinate, mercurial, verbose, xenophobic, and congenitally gracious.† (source)
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