verbosity
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His Harvard-and-Yale pedigree and debate-me-bro verbosity make him come off more like a snob than a man of the people.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
Bronner inherited his verbosity and gumption from his grandfather, Emanuel Bronner, who originally crammed all-caps, feel-good credos onto the labels of his soap bottles in the 1940s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
The differences, of course, are my unimpeachable taste and my extreme verbosity, neither of which I make any apology for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
It's that incredible thing that I'm sure is John Williams, where it's like, "OK, how do we communicate? We have to communicate on a musical level if we don't understand the verbosity of another species."
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2023
He is the very antipode to Don Adriano in "Love's Labor's Lost"; never could it be said of him that "he draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
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