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Significados de prolix em inglês

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

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Uso de prolix em inglês
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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
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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 ...
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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
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If I am too prolix upon this head, I am sorry for it.
Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1
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But I fear my zeal for this doctrine has made me too prolix.
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations / Also, Treatises On The Nature O...
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Neither Ishmael, nor his sons deemed it necessary to enter into prolix explanations.
The Prairie
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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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