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Meanings of
wordiness
in английском
португальский
prolixidade
каталонский
prolixitat
испанский
verbosidad
Back to the meaning
Boring verbosity.
prolixity
windiness
prolixness
long-windedness
португальский
prolixidade
Synonyms
Examples for "
prolixity
"
prolixity
windiness
prolixness
long-windedness
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
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
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
wordiness
in английском
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.
6
His unwonted
wordiness
inspirited me.
7
There was a bored tolerance of his
wordiness
,
an utter lack of interest in the concerns of the petty tradesman.
8
His wanton
wordiness
came to his rescue, and until the end of the game he played with sang-froid, daring, and skill.
9
They caused the composer a lot of trouble, going through multiple revisions, and both still suffer from the musical equivalent of
wordiness
.
10
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?"
11
See Activity 2 of EXERCISE -
Wordiness
III above for a statement of Defoe's purpose.
12
EXERCISE -
Wordiness
II
13
EXERCISE -
Wordiness
III
14
EXERCISE -
Wordiness
I
15
(See paragraph above EXERCISE -
Wordiness
III above.)
16
Again he found himself interrupted by the
wordiness
of the doctor.
Other examples for "wordiness"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
wordiness
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
empty wordiness
escape wordiness
unctuous wordiness
unwonted wordiness
wanton wordiness
Translations for
wordiness
португальский
prolixidade
каталонский
prolixitat
испанский
verbosidad
palabrería
prolijidad
Wordiness
through the time