prolixity

Example Sentences

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There is a problem, though, with prolixity and erudition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

As with Anthony Burgess and John Updike, Roth’s astonishing prolixity exhausted even his most loyal readers.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2018

Editors attacked each other in the street, cursing each other with prolixity and backward-running sentences.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2016

The dialogue on “The Heart, She Holler” buries bathroom humor in mock-Southern prolixity, and the show’s best gags achieve a sort of poetic absurdity that is equal parts Dada and Looney Tunes.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2013

I will only write, at present, of what befell in the conquest, and I will not write much, in order to avoid prolixity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond