be prolix

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Fondrie's sentence is the shortest winner in the prize's history, "proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy", said organisers.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2011

The great desire I had, my lord, to converse with you at this distance, has forced me to be prolix, and still obliges me to proceed; though not much farther.

From Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life Wherein is demonstrated, by his own Example, the Method of Preserving Health to Extreme Old Age by Cornaro, Luigi

Not to be prolix on this point, we will take a few cases.

From The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. by Payne, Buckner H. 'Ariel'

Do not be prolix; avoid digressions; do not often reiterate the same expression. 89th.

From George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway by Conway, Moncure Daniel

I have so much to tell you, that I shall be prolix, for I have to recount to you the most painful, the most romantic incident of my life.

From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Sue, Eugène