be prolix
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Fondrie's sentence is the shortest winner in the prize's history, "proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy", said organisers.
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2011
The style of these documents is felt to be prolix, and their arrangement perplexing.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John
It is harder for French writers to be prolix.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
The great desire I had, my lord, to converse with you at this distance, has forced me to be prolix, and still obliges me to proceed; though not much farther.
From Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life Wherein is demonstrated, by his own Example, the Method of Preserving Health to Extreme Old Age by Cornaro, Luigi
Many more, not to be prolix, I omit.
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Taylor, Thomas
