Thesaurus / verbose
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Avoid verbose marketing lingo and keep answers short and concise.
YOU CAN’T HACK YOUR YC APPLICATION, BUT HERE’S WHAT TO AVOIDRAM IYERAUGUST 26, 2021TECHCRUNCHThe verbose Marmot, wordless; the listless Slaughter, dominant.
COLONIAL BORNG. FIRTH SCOTTOne day when Little Teacher had given him a verbose definition of the word “pestiferous,” David looked at her comprehendingly.
DAVID DUNNEBELLE KANARIS MANIATESConsequently, he gives us rather a verbose declamation against their philosophy than any clear view of its character.
VIEW OF THE STATE OF EUROPE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES, VOL. 3 (OF 3)HENRY HALLAMThe welcome of the Indians was simple always, and a word sufficed among them as amply as the most studied and verbose compliment.
THE LILY AND THE TOTEMWILLIAM GILMORE SIMMSThe other women were hopelessly verbose, or, if they argued against her, ridiculously unseeing.
NARCISSUSEVELYN SCOTTThese were not statements of knowledge, but verbose confessions of ignorance.
DETERMINISM OR FREE-WILL?CHAPMAN COHENBaha's style is rhetorical, verbose, prolix, but with a certain strength.
BAHAISM AND ITS CLAIMSSAMUEL GRAHAM WILSONNo; in my roundabout, verbose way, Miss Deane, I was explaining that my cook's illness was a matter for congratulation.
FIND THE WOMANARTHUR SOMERS ROCHEI can laugh now at the impossible metres, the grandiose phrases, the verbose repetitions of my poem.
THE PROMISED LANDMARY ANTINWORDS RELATED TO VERBOSE
- aggrandized
- amplified
- augmented
- aureate
- bloated
- bombastic
- diffuse
- dilated
- distended
- dropsical
- enlarged
- euphuistic
- extended
- filled
- flatulent
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grown
- hot-air
- magnified
- magniloquent
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overestimated
- pompous
- pretentious
- prolix
- puffed
- pumped-up
- ranting
- rhapsodical
- rhetorical
- showy
- spread
- stretched
- surcharged
- swollen
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgid
- verbose
- windy
- wordy
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