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wordy

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Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.

Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.

Containing many words; full of words.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. Marcus Aurelius

The grateful savants had accepted, and they were spending the rest of their lives reading fifteenth-hand opinions, taking pleasant naps, and drooling out to yawning students the anemic and wordy bookishness which they called learning. Sinclair Lewis

In art, conciseness is both a necessity and a luxury; a concise man provokes thought, a wordy man provokes boredom; always move towards conciseness. In the figure, look for the main light and the main shadow, the rest will come of itself: often, it amounts to very little. Édouard Manet

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage. Laurence Housman

I seem to be the most wordy when it comes to monsters because I'm a bit of a monster freak. Silvia Colloca

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