verbosity

Example Sentences

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The previous record-holder was President Clinton, famously known for his Southern-twang verbosity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Its sportscasters are more judicious with their verbosity this time around too.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2024

It will also let developers decide their AI's style of tone and verbosity.

From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2023

But it’s a shame when the character’s verbosity distracts from the trilogy’s other achievements: history rendered with immediacy, with tones and perspectives sometimes engagingly varied.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022

An aristocratic minister, speaking at Edinburgh soon after, estimated the number of words in Mr. Gladstone's Midlothian speeches in 1879 at 85,840, and declared that his verbosity had become “a positive danger to the commonwealth.”

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John