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as in rambling
using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea
her writing style is far too wordy for my tastes
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as in verbal
of or relating to words or language
the neighborhood dispute escalated into a wordy war conducted through angry letters to the editor in the local paper
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Recent Examples of wordy
For example, the AI maker might tell the AI to always respond succinctly and not be overly wordy.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Davis is a magnetic front man, and the Roadhouse Band is an intoxicatingly raucous live outfit, but the constraints of the setup suited his new material, which is suffused with listlessness and yearning, dark jokes and wordy disquisitions on desire.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Getting this into English would be clunky and far too wordy to fit into Quino’s word bubbles.
—Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
Fiction writing in the past tense in Afrikaans can come across as wordy and even clumsy.
—Literary Hub, 16 May 2025
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Day trips to Amalfi-style Taormina are well-advised for those who have yet to gawp at its clifftop panoramas across the Mediterranean or its film star hotels, as are jaunts to the rambling flea markets and splendidly scruffy trattorias of nearby Catania.—
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The throwdown came after Trump mocked Newsom in a rambling speech at the Kennedy Center by the incumbant to Republican lawmakers.—
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Attorneys for the victims' families say the victims were three 10-year-old non-verbal boys with autism.—
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Trump’s relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is just as volatile, ranging from verbal fistfights in the Oval Office to respectful deliberation.—
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Lopez describes her daughter as an energetic, talkative child who speaks both English and Spanish.—
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Then, like now, people were very talkative.—
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Cultural, linguistic, and value-based assimilation challenges arise, potentially altering national identities and eroding civilizational confidence.—
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Geertz was a master of this humanistic art, which required patient fluency and subtle attention to the linguistic and meaning-making features of politics.—
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In 1949, a young American artist named Ray Johnson left Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C., moved to New York City and began to explore his prolix talents, both visual and verbal.—
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His answer is this book: a laudably sincere, exasperatingly prolix and occasionally affecting rumination on the state of Egypt—its society, culture, history and politics—pegged to the maddening bureaucracy of the archive.—
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From Ron being just the guiding light of all of it, and so understanding, communicative and gentle with me — just such a great leader in every way, shape or form.—
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The uncertainty has been hard, even with suppliers being communicative and transparent.—
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The Four Freedoms Roosevelt named were not rhetorical ornaments offered as inspiration so much as a diagnosis.—
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Most Venezuelans who are smart recognize that this is a rhetorical device.—
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“Wordy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordy. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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