prolixity
Example Sentences
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Being so multivarious in its effects and all but ubiquitous in human history, wind is a convenient vehicle for a writer known for charming prolixity and relaxed erudition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
As with Anthony Burgess and John Updike, Roth’s astonishing prolixity exhausted even his most loyal readers.
From The Guardian • May 23, 2018
Editors attacked each other in the street, cursing each other with prolixity and backward-running sentences.
From Slate • Aug. 9, 2016
The dialogue on “The Heart, She Holler” buries bathroom humor in mock-Southern prolixity, and the show’s best gags achieve a sort of poetic absurdity that is equal parts Dada and Looney Tunes.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2013
I will only write, at present, of what befell in the conquest, and I will not write much, in order to avoid prolixity.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing prolixity
30 GRE Words Beginning with "P"
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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