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 John West
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 Luigi Cornaro
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 Charles Major
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 Eugène Sue
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