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

These I shall not specify, lest I be prolix.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

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

But it is possible to be prolix without being an Antimachus, and the prolixity of Statius is quite sufficient.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

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