wordy
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With sad brown eyes, he offered drab, wordy pronouncements in a gentle voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Users — especially those who made the switch to Claude — have recently slammed the app for being unnecessarily wordy and preachy in tone.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026
A lay reader may find this wordy description difficult to grasp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
What was left was a wordy, at-times confusing bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
Good Boys, though wordy in parts, is nonetheless a great play for high school actors and audiences.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Whichever unnamed firm approached Arcadia, it took a particular interest in the wordier History Press, indicating that generative text remains the lodestar.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2025
“Midnights,” from 2022, was a little moodier than 2024’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” which was a little wordier than its predecessor, but both operated within a relatively narrow template.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
We found that 64 percent of our respondents preferred to funnel resources toward the case that featured a wordier report.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2022
Her “Before and Still” is wordier, yet more cryptic.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022
I knew a Captain of artillery in Smith's division, who was wordier than Gratiano, and who exaggerated like Falstaff.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
This is one of the wordiest musicals in the history of theater, a show so drunk on the exuberance of its language that it almost never stops to catch its breath.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Lines have been plucked from the novel, yet even at its wordiest, the film is never weighed down by the burden of faithfulness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2020
The statistics also support another observation court watchers have made -- Breyer is by far the wordiest justice.
From Chicago Tribune ● Mar. 30, 2012
The Internal Revenue Code isn’t the wordiest part of the United States Code by a long shot, according to the analysis by Bommarito and Katz.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2011
Think of "The Excursion," of Southey, and of the early poems of Shelley, of Scott at his wordiest.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby
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