prolix
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Significant, Prolix The second international meeting of the P.E.N.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prolix, quartz, quandary, sylpb, rhythm, all the old tricks with consonants I could dream up or remember.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Prolix might he have been deemed, save by the flock he guided, Who duteously accounted him but a little lower than the angels.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard
Prolix, tedious Collins follows the plan he usually does when his rancorous prejudices do not influence him, and presents half a dozen utterly inconsistent accounts, with no effort whatever to reconcile them.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Roosevelt, Theodore
Prolix reports also helped to kill the patient.
From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
Vocabulary lists containing prolix
The Scarlet Letter
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100 SAT words Beginning with "P"
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