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wordiness

/wur-dee/US // ˈwɜr di //UK // (ˈwɜːdɪ) //

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    word·i·er, word·i·est.

    • : characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
    • : pertaining to or consisting of words; verbal.

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Examples

  • There was a vast amount of whisper and low-toned wordiness, subsurface complaint and counter-complaint.

  • Here is a writer who began literature with a sense of words, and who is declining into a mere sense of wordiness.

  • An unnecessary profusion of words is called verbiage: verbosity, wordiness.

  • They have the wordiness of hasty composition, and the discursive rhetoric intended to catch the attention of an indolent audience.

  • We witness its disastrous effects in the empty wordiness of many extemporaneous preachers.