wordy

When Monroe asked him what he thought of it, Weatherby replied that it was too wordy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

That wordy definition has long been a source of legal debate.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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

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

“Midnights,” from 2022, was a little moodier than 2024’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” which was a little wordier than its predecessor, but both operated within a relatively narrow template.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

Think of "The Excursion," of Southey, and of the early poems of Shelley, of Scott at his wordiest.

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby