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Meanings of prolix in English
Usage of prolix in English
1
The old singers are somewhat prolix; it behooves us to be brief.
2
Be brief in thy discourse, for what is prolix cannot be pleasing.
3
Clark's decidedly prolix speeches to the Indians are given with intolerable repetition.
4
He told me long and prolix stories, he discoursed on rural needs.
5
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
6
A knock at the office door interrupted the circumlocutions of the prolix document.
7
If I am too prolix upon this head, I am sorry for it.
8
But I fear my zeal for this doctrine has made me too prolix.
9
Neither Ishmael, nor his sons deemed it necessary to enter into prolix explanations.
10
He's the one who tipped me off that our prose was too prolix.'
11
But, not to be too prolix, I will pass them over.
12
But do not confine yourself to such Lacedaemonian brevity, Maitre Bilot; be prolix!
13
Those enormously prolix harangues are a proof of weakness in the higher intellectual grasp.
14
The fourth is a more prolix form of the first.
15
It is somewhat wandering and prolix as to method, but written in delightful prose.
16
The style is prolix and declamatory, and characterized by awkward affectation and involved obscurity.
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