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longwinded

adjective as in long-winded

adjective as in rambling

adjective as in conversational

adjective as in discursive

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Example Sentences

Then Billy Harden gets the floor, and squares away fur a longwinded speech telling why.

We say that it is easier to teach a child by means of short pithy sentences than by longwinded and involved dittoes.

Judge Colver thereupon essayed, in his longwinded, heavy way, to impart to the new arrival the story they had just heard.

All of which was a longwinded way of saying the Grass was overrunning Illinois.

It could produce at once the longwinded rhapsodies of Filmer and, by repulsion, the wearisome reiterations of Algernon Sidney.

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On this page you'll find 761 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to longwinded, such as: ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, implied, incidental, and oblique.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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