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Significats de wordy en anglès

Using or containing too many words.

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Examples for "tedious"
Examples for "tedious"
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The second half began in a fashion that was actually quite tedious.
The Guardian
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It was tedious work but strangely satisfying to him, building a case.
Book of shadows
3
The comparison is tedious and spun out; but the idea is poetic.
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and...
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The work was tedious, the hours long, but crime was unheard of.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
5
The journey across the heath was tedious; the clouds only passed rapidly.
The True Story of My Life: A Sketch
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Free State: Partly cloudy, windy and warm with isolated showers and thundershowers.
The South African
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Free State: Partly cloudy, windy and warm to hot with isolated thunderstorms.
The South African
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The warm, dry and windy conditions are expected to continue into Friday.
News.com.au
4
Northern Cape: Fine, windy and warm, becoming partly cloudy in the south.
The South African
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Traveling west, they soon left behind the low-lying basin of windy plains.
The Plains of Passage
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Be aware, however, that this data is extremely verbose and often obscure.
Essential system administration, 3rd edition
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He often intrigues and perplexes his audience with verbose answers to questions.
Reuters
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In verbose monologues, he combats the superstitions and fanaticism of the orthodox.
The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
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I'm learning lines all the time because my character is rather verbose.
Reuters
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Why should he be so ardent in desiring grave and verbose writers?
Heretics
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We lose our readers' attention when paragraphs are too long-winded and wordy.
The South African
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In most cases these were long-winded, pointless, and yawn-provoking attempts at writing.
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
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Caleb could be extremely long-winded when he felt the occasion warranted it.
Diagnosis: danger
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The interminable angst of the working artist deserves deeper, more long-winded analysis!
The Irish Times
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To suggest he was curt would be to misrepresent him as long-winded.
The Irish Times
Ús de wordy en anglès
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How those called intellectuals are often not so much wise as wordy.
The Tyranny Of Words
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We lose our readers' attention when paragraphs are too long-winded and wordy.
The South African
3
The guide, the muleteers, and the stranger were having a wordy struggle.
Through stained glass / A Novel
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Some should be punished with wordy rebukes, and with fines and forfeitures.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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The statement held more complete and quiet confidence than any wordy boast.
Key Out of Time
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It would be easy to complain that Catch-22 is wordy, after all.
The Guardian
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There are perhaps one or two interviews with wordy interviewers too many.
The Guardian
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And when you get too wordy, the lyrics don't mean as much.
Ebony
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And this week a wordy show that gets to grips with language.
Radio NZ
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Gods require lots of wordy preamble, so I just smiled and nodded.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
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You have been very wordy, and all you have done is buzz.
The Iron Heel
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My time is precious, and de hire is wordy ob de laborer.
The Lost Hunter / A Tale of Early Times
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He has a horror of its wordy wars, its flood of objurgation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 / A Magazine...
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What are her image and attributes, when dragged from her wordy lurking-place?
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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Do you remember, Agatha, how we used to enjoy their wordy combats?
The Carved Cupboard
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Past incarnations of the referendum question have proved far more wordy.
BBC
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