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verbosity
noun as in wordiness
Example Sentences
Its sportscasters are more judicious with their verbosity this time around too.
Perhaps the most consistent features of originalist decisions are their density and verbosity: To determine whether a purported right is sufficiently “deeply rooted” in “history and tradition,” justices and judges conduct meandering surveys of English common law, quote the dusty treatises of mononymic philosophers, and parse the hastily scribbled notes of founding-era legislators who wrote the letter S, for some godforsaken reason, as F. The majority opinion in Dobbs v.
Verbosity became more of a problem with the advent of television coverage in the 1950s.
Russians are used to his history lessons, she went on, but American viewers “must be going nuts with all this historical verbosity.”
The differences, of course, are my unimpeachable taste and my extreme verbosity, neither of which I make any apology for.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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