prolixity

As Chief Justice John Marshall said in 1819, the nature of a constitution was that it was designed for the ages and therefore could not “partake of the prolixity of a legal code.”

Smith’s rendering of “The White Book” cannot be accused of prolixity.

As with Anthony Burgess and John Updike, Roth’s astonishing prolixity exhausted even his most loyal readers.

A wordsmith who leaves no one speechless and no zippy phrase unturned, he’s got a gift for gab that goes beyond logorrhea and prolixity into rat-a-tat felicity.

Facebook can be really annoying in that it seems to be based on a 10-year-old’s idea of friendship, and because it is filled with pointless prolixity and banality from boring people.