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Tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length.

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        Uso de prolix en inglés
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        The old singers are somewhat prolix; it behooves us to be brief.
        Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English
        2
        Be brief in thy discourse, for what is prolix cannot be pleasing.
        Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
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        Clark's decidedly prolix speeches to the Indians are given with intolerable repetition.
        The Winning of the West, Volume 2 / From the Alleghanies to the ...
        4
        He told me long and prolix stories, he discoursed on rural needs.
        The Altar Fire
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        The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
        The Natural History of Selborne
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        A knock at the office door interrupted the circumlocutions of the prolix document.
        Colonel Chabert
        7
        If I am too prolix upon this head, I am sorry for it.
        Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1
        8
        But I fear my zeal for this doctrine has made me too prolix.
        Cicero's Tusculan Disputations / Also, Treatises On The Nature O...
        9
        Neither Ishmael, nor his sons deemed it necessary to enter into prolix explanations.
        The Prairie
        10
        He's the one who tipped me off that our prose was too prolix.'
        Catch-22
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        But, not to be too prolix, I will pass them over.
        The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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        But do not confine yourself to such Lacedaemonian brevity, Maitre Bilot; be prolix!
        Captain Fracasse
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        Those enormously prolix harangues are a proof of weakness in the higher intellectual grasp.
        Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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        The fourth is a more prolix form of the first.
        Deductive Logic
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        It is somewhat wandering and prolix as to method, but written in delightful prose.
        A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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        The style is prolix and declamatory, and characterized by awkward affectation and involved obscurity.
        Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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