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Another word for wordy

Adjective

  1. Relating to, consisting of, or having the nature of words

    2. See also:

    words

  2. Using or containing an excessive number of words

    3. See also:

    words

    style

    excess

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Another word for wordy

Modifier
    2. See also:

    verbose

    verbose

    dull

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Sentence Examples

  • But the Girondins gained no tangible result from this wordy warfare.

  • But the Girondins gained no tangible result from this wordy warfare.

  • As an orator he was the leader of the opponents of the florid Asiatic school, who took the simplest Attic orators as their model and attacked even Cicero as wordy and artificial.

  • Though his sentences themselves are not wordy, he is extremely diffuse in treatment, habitually repeating an idea in successive sentences of much the same import.

  • If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.

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