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long-winded

adjective as in wordy

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And awards night host Nate Bargatze implored winners to keep their long-winded speeches snappy with a running gag that saw his charity donation docked if speech-givers went over their allotted time.

From BBC

His answers were frequently long-winded, muddled and incoherent.

There was long-winded indulgence and lovely itty-bitty works, over in a flash but suggestive of a full and lovely life, like that of an insect.

But the schemes they need to access to get it can be long-winded and complicated.

From BBC

I could give you a very long-winded response to that, but I think the shortest way to say is that the word "protest" is in the word "Protestant."

From Salon

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