be prolix
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Fondrie's sentence is the shortest winner in the prize's history, "proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy", said organisers.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2011
Not to be prolix on this point, we will take a few cases.
From The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. by Buckner H. 'Ariel' Payne
Had the dunce But aimed at these bare words the rogues had found him, But striving to be prolix, they half drowned him.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Mary Lamb
Many more, not to be prolix, I omit.
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor
Do not be prolix; avoid digressions; do not often reiterate the same expression. 89th.
From George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway by Moncure Daniel Conway
