as in rambling
using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea
had to wade through a verbose letter of complaint
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as in wordiness
the use of too many words to express an idea
your ideas are good, but your penchant for verbosity is unfortunate
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Recent Examples of verbose
William Booth, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
Laurie Woolery, who has helmed the premieres of several new plays at another New Haven theater, the Yale Rep, in New Haven, has a knack for packing action and needed distraction into scenes that might otherwise be tiringly verbose.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2022
Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
The Art of Brevity — Saying More with Less
• Micro-moments: The fast pace of social media doesn’t afford the luxury of verbosity.
—Christian Anderson (trust'n), Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
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Adjective
Truss is far less colorful, less verbose than her former backslapping boss — perhaps in a good way.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022
Laurie Woolery, who has helmed the premieres of several new plays at another New Haven theater, the Yale Rep, in New Haven, has a knack for packing action and needed distraction into scenes that might otherwise be tiringly verbose.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2022
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Nevertheless, those who wish to undermine church teachings will find in its ambiguity and verbosity license to do so.
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
The Art of Brevity — Saying More with Less
• Micro-moments: The fast pace of social media doesn’t afford the luxury of verbosity.
—Christian Anderson (trust'n), Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for verbose
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In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
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His statement came a day after the release of the Netflix series, which takes viewers back to the morning after Christmas 28 years ago, when JonBenét’s mother called 911 to report finding a rambling ransom note and her daughter missing.Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024
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Claypool has missed the last five practices, and even while on the sideline during Monday’s practice, his talkative nature with some of the defenders did not go over well with the other side of the ball.Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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In 2001's Bridget Jones's Diary, what starts as a not-so-meet-cute between the talkative Bridget (Renée Zellweger) and the offensive Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at a New Year's Eve party unfolds into one of the most swoon-worthy rom-coms the genre has to offer.Skyler Caruso, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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Words, including those of artists themselves—as prolix in their way as critics, curators, and historians—can serve vision but can also deflect from it.Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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In 1949, a young American artist named Ray Johnson left Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C., moved to New York City and began to explore his prolix talents, both visual and verbal.Roberta Smith, New York Times, 30 May 2024
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Relationships need repetition and structure to grow.Serena Dai, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2025
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Rather, these freelancing skills are developed through repetition and practice, and through learning from and watching the habits of other freelancers who've made it to the pinnacles of their careers.Rachel Wells, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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In this grid, Mr. Enfinger suggests a wordier option: TOOK A SHOT AT.Sam Corbin, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Chatty newsletters, wordy Substacks and quirky TikTok videos and Instagram stories rely more heavily on personality and emotion than do their TV and old-school print counterparts.Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Jan. 2025
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Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.Barton Swaim, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
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On their website, the three yellow stripes are prominently featured on the website under the Black Lives Matter wordage, and used on their social media accounts.Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
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Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
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The essential oil’s diffusion is extremely powerful, a quality that many consumers are now seeking in perfume, a consequence of TikTok’s #beastmode fragrance trend.Sable Yong, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
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The researchers use their device to demonstrate a number of standard tasks for a neural network, such as classifying the shape of optical waveforms, predicting the next value in a time series given the previous values and generating images by diffusion.The Physics arXiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Verbose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verbose. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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