long-windedness
Example Sentences
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The president also joked about the contrast between his own reputation for long-windedness and Reid’s laconic style.
From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2022
He became helpfully competitive with himself, proudly marking any triumphs over long-windedness.
From New York Times • May 11, 2020
He generally resisted the epic long-windedness of nineteenth-century German prose, but here he makes an exception as he verbally acts out the condition of universal flux.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019
Hall and Oates then took the stage for speeches so brief they seemed to be a shot at the E Street Band’s long-windedness.
From Time • Apr. 11, 2014
One fact must, of course, be remembered, which has probably proved a source of confusion in the popular mind, and that is its extraordinary "long-windedness."
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
