Meanings of wordiness in English

Again he found himself interrupted by the wordiness of the doctor.

What, forsooth, had I been looking for in the empty wordiness of the book?

And yet there is no noisiness, no wordiness, about them; nothing like rant or violence.

They appear very wise in their wordiness when real military experts are silent for want of knowledge.

A final device for escaping wordiness you will have discovered for yourself while composing telegrams and telegraphic night letters.

His unwonted wordiness inspirited me.

There was a bored tolerance of his wordiness, an utter lack of interest in the concerns of the petty tradesman.

His wanton wordiness came to his rescue, and until the end of the game he played with sang-froid, daring, and skill.

They caused the composer a lot of trouble, going through multiple revisions, and both still suffer from the musical equivalent of wordiness.

But when one man, growing weary of the speaker's unctuous wordiness, discharged a fierce: "Why the hell don't yer git on to the bloody licence-tax?"

See Activity 2 of EXERCISE - Wordiness III above for a statement of Defoe's purpose.

EXERCISE - Wordiness II

EXERCISE - Wordiness III

EXERCISE - Wordiness I

(See paragraph above EXERCISE - Wordiness III above.)

Again he found himself interrupted by the wordiness of the doctor.