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verbose

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1. verbose - Adjective

2. verbose - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.

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Artists are those who can evade the verbose. Haruki Murakami

Revolutions are always verbose. Leon Trotsky

[...] the Eternal turned his attention to the three shades who stood humbly and yet hopefully before him. The quick, with so short a time to live, when they talk of themselves, talk too much; but the dead, with eternity before them, are so verbose that only angels could listen to them with civility. W. Somerset Maugham

I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article. Amitabh Bachchan

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often. Josh Gad

How I despise the liberal gang that has captured the Chamber! They are prisoners of their own verbose unrealism, and are setting the country back further from year to year. Alfred von Waldersee

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