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verbosity

[ UK /vɜːbˈɒsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words

How To Use verbosity In A Sentence

  • In this matter of verbosity the example of Westminster is again instructive. Our Parliament, Its Organization and Work
  • The Weekly Standard talks poetry today, rolling words on its tongue with a languid, liquid verbosity -- viva la agenbite! The WritingYA Weblog: An Agreeable Destruction
  • Yet woe to those who are silent about you because, though loquacious with verbosity, they have nothing to say.
  • The spoken form of logorrhoea (other than in the medical sense) is a kind of verbosity which uses superfluous Latest Articles
  • We must stop when we cannot go any further, and all this old-womanish cackle on the subject, the everlasting trying to prove what is already said to be proved -- the looking for the square in space after laying it down as a law that only the circle exists -- is a curious way of showing us how to control the 'exuberance of our own verbosity.' Ideala
  • It seeks to present ideas clearly and directly, and to avoid archaic terms, repetition, and verbosity.
  • It appears to be a specially successful job considering the verbosity and digressiveness of the novel of this writer who, though often brilliant, writes in a highly disorderly way.
  • For all its verbosity, the task-force report never explains its central conceit: ‘equity in hiring.’
  • Another common addiction is to replace ‘at all’ by the verbosity of ‘in any way, shape or form’.
  • Keep it curt, Kenny, and stop soft-soaping us with your loquacity and verbosity.
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