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The lengthiness of that process aside, there isn’t the faintest hint of legal violations — nor does the New York Post’s story suggest as much.

From Washington Post Aug. 11, 2022

And often lengthiness can be the absolute soul of wit, as in Proust or Dickens.

From New York Times Feb. 21, 2019

Even the lengthiness weights and certifies a story that, if told concisely, could merely seem lurid.

From Time Magazine Archive

The apology for Crabbe's lengthiness might almost be extended to the singular inequalities of his verse.

From English Men of Letters: Crabbe by Ainger, Alfred

He highly approved of brevity in preaching, and used to say that the chief fault of the preachers of the day was lengthiness.

From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre




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