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Meanings of windiness in English
Synonyms
Examples for "prolixity"
Examples for "prolixity"
1
But the new form brought with it a new danger-thatof prolixity.
2
Such prolixity enchanted the King, whose greediness for business epistles was insatiable.
3
The centipedal prolixity that resulted went to Eli by letter, thus entitled-
4
The stream of recordings, flows with bewildering prolixity from labels large and small.
5
The doctor cut short the father's prolixity in a burly voice:-
1
Again he found himself interrupted by the wordiness of the doctor.
2
What, forsooth, had I been looking for in the empty wordiness of the book?
3
And yet there is no noisiness, no wordiness, about them; nothing like rant or violence.
4
They appear very wise in their wordiness when real military experts are silent for want of knowledge.
5
A final device for escaping wordiness you will have discovered for yourself while composing telegrams and telegraphic night letters.
1
Because, I'm no match for you in long-windedness.
2
The latter applies to Abraham Ibn Ezra, who might have said with the poet, "I avoid long-windedness, and I become obscure."
Usage of windiness in English
1
Terrence completes his circle right there and stultifies all his windiness.
2
I began to hope the whole thing might be nothing more than English windiness.
3
The mechanical theory is a necessary reaction against romance that has decayed into windiness, extravagance, and incoherence.
4
I cried out on him as a scoundrel, though vexed with myself for such mere windiness of utterance.
5
Out of the windiness
Frequent collocations
Translations for windiness
Portuguese
Catalan
Windiness through the time