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

It is harder for French writers to be prolix.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

But not to be prolix in the Character of the old Cacklogallinians, I shall give it in few Words.

From A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country by Brunt, Captain Samuel

But it is possible to be prolix without being an Antimachus, and the prolixity of Statius is quite sufficient.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

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