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Meanings of verbiage in English
Portuguese
dicção Catalan
verbositat The manner in which something is expressed in words.
Synonyms
Examples for "wording"
Examples for "wording"
1
The exact wording of the referendum question is yet to be decided.
2
Both houses must then agree the final wording before it becomes law.
3
He said the final decision on the wording was taken by May.
4
The current debate concerned wording within a subsection of the departmental self-study.
5
Unfortunately the wording is too ambiguous to decide one way or another.
1
They are tender in feeling, musical in verse, and pure in diction.
2
The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard.
3
The solution of this problem lies in the proper study of diction.
4
Was the mannered diction mostly down to English being her second language?
5
Thou thinkest Marie-Antoinette commanded the nobility of France with her good diction?
1
In elegant phraseology they are providences; in plain language they are milch-cows.
2
A refinement of phraseology had set in; and it served its purpose.
3
Shocking, isn't it? Crederre said, and again Veppers heard her stepmother's phraseology.
4
Her childish phraseology made Owen smile in the midst of his annoyance.
5
He knew nothing of the unheard-of intricacies in punctuation, spelling and phraseology.
1
Yet again, sorry about the questionable phrasing there, given the subject matter.
2
I don't remember phrasing it exactly that way, but yes, that proposal.
3
And I haven't actually heard the Green Party use that phrasing, either.
4
Riemann has ideas of his own, both in the phrasing and figuration.
5
Her voice is raw and emotional, with phrasing far beyond her years.
1
The choice of words was distinctive and the sentence structure more formal.
2
Her choice of words startled and embarrassed Wallander, but he said nothing.
3
Other members picked up on Mr Morrison's choice of words as well.
4
Hans shrunk a bit at Harpal's tone and unyielding choice of words.
5
But the minister's choice of words appears to have intensified the discourse.
Usage of verbiage in English
1
After the verbiage of the campaign, Ms Pelosi's words carry some weight.
2
What chance has a Spanish peasant of understanding this rain of verbiage?
3
The other is an obscure but quite typical exercise in ministerial verbiage.
4
Stripped of verbiage and technicalities, the case is within the humblest comprehension.
5
Mr. MOREHEAD, of North Carolina:-Cannotwe avoid the verbiage of the amendment?
6
Commons, both sides, rather liked to hear him struggle with his verbiage.
7
Federal government websites are being combed through to apply new verbiage.
8
In politics at all levels the greater the verbiage the greater the confusion.
9
Beyond the press release verbiage, the picture is far less rosy.
10
For a moment the legal verbiage of the instruments bewildered him.
11
The trickiest part about moving to America is adjusting to the American verbiage.
12
We'll keep you posted once the new verbiage is officially released.
13
The flowery verbiage, the accumulated adjectives, the poetical quotations were overpowering.
14
It's an achievement just to fit the heady verbiage into a verse-chorus structure.
15
The Greek and Roman prayers were almost always mere egotistical verbiage.
16
In particular, they loathed the hardship of engraving endless verbiage upon granitic slabs.
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Verbiage across language varieties
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