I think that most well-informed hostesses would agree that the following is too verbose:

This, not to be too verbose, he simply likens to being "in a tub."

They're far too verbose and their subtlety, intricacy and verbosity seem to be increasing over time, Pike said.

Exclusively of this objection, the apostrophe seems too verbose, both for the suddenness and urgency of the occasion.

But one of the defects of the listening habit is perhaps to make them too rhetorical, too verbose.

Russell had been too verbose, which was the only indication that the king was anxious about Bill's reaction.

The disadvantage of a dictaphone or tape recorder, however, is that it encourages you to be much too verbose.

"I will restrain my much too verbose tongue."