be prolix

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

I leave the rest unsaid, not to be prolix.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Not to be prolix on this subject—let us remember one capital illustration—that of the clown and his two pieces of fireworks.

From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Morford, Henry

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 Taylor, Thomas

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 Lamb, Mary