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[wur-dee] / ˈwɜr di /


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With sad brown eyes, he offered drab, wordy pronouncements in a gentle voice.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Its wordy libretto, faithfully adapted by Philip Littell from the Tennessee Williams play, is a bit too long.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

"They're quite wordy so you could argue that a lot of subjective marking could happen," Polley said.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2026

Users — especially those who made the switch to Claude — have recently slammed the app for being unnecessarily wordy and preachy in tone.

From MarketWatch Mar. 25, 2026

The one I have in mind not only is wordy and earnest beyond my wildest dreams but is, to boot, rather excruciatingly personal.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

The two songs in Swedish are much wordier and tackle more complicated subjects.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

Whichever unnamed firm approached Arcadia, it took a particular interest in the wordier History Press, indicating that generative text remains the lodestar.

From Slate Nov. 3, 2025

We found that 64 percent of our respondents preferred to funnel resources toward the case that featured a wordier report.

From Scientific American Sep. 30, 2022

It isn’t often that a serial playgoer, worn down by other, wordier dramatists, watches the lights come up and hopes they go back down.

From Washington Post Mar. 30, 2022

I knew a Captain of artillery in Smith's division, who was wordier than Gratiano, and who exaggerated like Falstaff.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

This is one of the wordiest musicals in the history of theater, a show so drunk on the exuberance of its language that it almost never stops to catch its breath.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2022

Lines have been plucked from the novel, yet even at its wordiest, the film is never weighed down by the burden of faithfulness.

From New York Times Oct. 15, 2020

The statistics also support another observation court watchers have made -- Breyer is by far the wordiest justice.

From Chicago Tribune Mar. 30, 2012

The Internal Revenue Code isn’t the wordiest part of the United States Code by a long shot, according to the analysis by Bommarito and Katz.

From Slate Oct. 26, 2011

Eloquence alone shall guide them—and the readiest writer or wordiest talker is perforce their professor.

From The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler




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