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lengthy

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1. lengthy - Adjective

3. lengthy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.

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But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. Wole Soyinka

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. André Maurois

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. Edvard Munch

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip. John Kennedy Toole

After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom. Tim Johnson

A lengthy sermon is intolerable. Latin Proverb

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