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

“These days I wear my body like an uninvited guest,” she sings on the verse, her fleet-footed verbosity conveying a sense of itchy anxiety.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022

Or perhaps it's a matter of the principal characters having less dialogue, although the verbosity of Bob Odenkirk's con man has ramped up in recent episodes as his various personalities messily squish together.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2022

But “he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob