wordy
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When Monroe asked him what he thought of it, Weatherby replied that it was too wordy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
"They're quite wordy so you could argue that a lot of subjective marking could happen," Polley said.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Users — especially those who made the switch to Claude — have recently slammed the app for being unnecessarily wordy and preachy in tone.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026
A lay reader may find this wordy description difficult to grasp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
The one I have in mind not only is wordy and earnest beyond my wildest dreams but is, to boot, rather excruciatingly personal.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Whichever unnamed firm approached Arcadia, it took a particular interest in the wordier History Press, indicating that generative text remains the lodestar.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2025
“Midnights,” from 2022, was a little moodier than 2024’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” which was a little wordier than its predecessor, but both operated within a relatively narrow template.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
We found that 64 percent of our respondents preferred to funnel resources toward the case that featured a wordier report.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2022
The Foggy Bottom show, which was curated by Kayleigh Bryant Greenwell, is a bit wordier.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2021
I knew a Captain of artillery in Smith's division, who was wordier than Gratiano, and who exaggerated like Falstaff.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
This is one of the wordiest musicals in the history of theater, a show so drunk on the exuberance of its language that it almost never stops to catch its breath.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Lines have been plucked from the novel, yet even at its wordiest, the film is never weighed down by the burden of faithfulness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2020
The statistics also support another observation court watchers have made -- Breyer is by far the wordiest justice.
From Chicago Tribune ● Mar. 30, 2012
The Internal Revenue Code isn’t the wordiest part of the United States Code by a long shot, according to the analysis by Bommarito and Katz.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2011
Eloquence alone shall guide them—and the readiest writer or wordiest talker is perforce their professor.
From The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler
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