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
Section 53.49 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is a classic of lawyerly syntax and needless verbosity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
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
The enactments of the two preceding legislatures had been published only in manuscript, a method of promulgation which one would think might have curbed verbosity.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
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