wordiness

[ UK /wˈɜːdɪnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. boring verbosity
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How To Use wordiness In A Sentence

  • One more thing has changed in headlines, apart from type size and wordiness: the language itself, the vocabulary.
  • Vain repetitions -- tautology, battology, idle babbling over the same words again and again to no purpose, like Battus, Sub illis montibus erant, erant sub montibus illis; like that imitation of the wordiness of a fool, Eccl. x. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • However, journalism did not change overnight and it still indulged in the Soviet practice of wordiness and high-flown rhetoric.
  • That last sentence has a green underline on my word processor, and when I right click to see what grammatical snafu I've made, it says ‘Wordiness.’
  • The Four Walls speaks in faceless clichés, the kind of rotund wordiness that bares itself in how little you gain.
  • there is a musky roundness to his wordiness
  • It turned out that English for the law epitomized wordiness, unclearness , pomposity, and dullness when it made its debut after it was legitimized.
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