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Definition of the day : « wordiness »

  • noun verbosity
  • noun excessive in language
Example sentences :
  • Thence much of the wordiness of our written, if not spoken, composition.
  • Extract from : « An Outline of English Speech-craft » by William Barnes
  • And yet there is no noisiness, no wordiness, about them; nothing like rant or violence.
  • Extract from : « Discipline » by Charles Kingsley
  • Often simply redundant, used from a mere habit of wordiness.
  • Extract from : « The Elements of Style » by William Strunk
  • Boys dislike fussiness, and wordiness, and beating about the bush.
  • Extract from : « Sunday-School Success » by Amos R. Wells
  • McGregor was so irritated by what he took to be the wordiness of the man that he could not restrain himself.
  • Extract from : « Marching Men » by Sherwood Anderson
  • Here is a writer who began literature with a sense of words, and who is declining into a mere sense of wordiness.
  • Extract from : « The Art of Letters » by Robert Lynd
  • An unnecessary profusion of words is called verbiage: verbosity, wordiness.
  • Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
  • They have the wordiness of hasty composition, and the discursive rhetoric intended to catch the attention of an indolent audience.
  • Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) » by Leslie Stephen
  • Verbosity and wordiness denote an excess of words in proportion to the thought.
  • Extract from : « English Synonyms and Antonyms » by James Champlin Fernald
  • His wordiness hurts tender ears when he so often and apparently without any use repeats the same things.
  • Extract from : « Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II » by Martin Luther