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

Do not be prolix; avoid digressions; do not often reiterate the same expression. 89th.

From George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway by Conway, Moncure Daniel

Remember, also, that in this letter I must condense when I might easily be prolix, and that after all is written, probably I shall have left unsaid the very thing I most wished to say.

From The Touchstone of Fortune by Major, Charles

Had the dunce         But aimed at these bare words the rogues had found him,         But striving to be prolix, they half drowned him.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Lamb, Mary

I have so much to tell you, that I shall be prolix, for I have to recount to you the most painful, the most romantic incident of my life.

From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Sue, Eugène