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
He did not wish to be prolix about it.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
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
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
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
