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verbiage

/vur-bee-ij/US // ˈvɜr bi ɪdʒ //UK // (ˈvɜːbɪɪdʒ) //

言语,语言文字,语词,语气词

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
    • : manner or style of expressing something in words; wording: a manual of official verbiage.

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Examples

  • See how others who are passionate about a topic are talking about it and see how you can incorporate that verbiage into your posts.

  • In this verbiage, this denotes anything shy of a commercial vehicle.

  • He had played quarterback at Stanford and knew the verbiage of the West Coast offense.

  • Going through the verbiage you will find that they place authority on the authors of content being mentioned in news articles and publications.

  • That has explanations back to the verbiage in the United States in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s actually.

  • While the answer contained additional verbiage, it maintains the same low level of intellectual content.

  • Political correctness was not part of her vocabulary, but anti-Semitic verbiage was.

  • But the flood of Joan Rivers-style verbiage about her day-to-day wardrobe has overwhelmed those nuanced conversations.

  • With a Romney-tilting audience, the nervous verbiage sounded even worse than it was.

  • Such verbiage and dithering in the face of market mayhem helped Europe get into its mess in the first place.

  • Jimmy was commissioned to anglicize a proper proposal and André spent hours in repeating the verbiage as taught.

  • What a collection of hopeless babblers, what a lot of superfluous verbiage, what an amount of wasted breath!'

  • The chapters are well condensed, nowhere burdened with verbiage, yet sufficiently full to serve the purpose in view.

  • I do not see how there can be a doubt; and yet, as I have said, it seems to me that a great deal of it is unnecessary verbiage.

  • "The intention is a commendable one, though expressed with unnecessary verbiage," replied Ning.