verbosity

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

From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2023

Asked about that comment, Ms. Schlein’s verbosity stalled.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 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

In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects. 

From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry