Sentence example with the word 'prolixity'

prolixity

bedizenment, dullness, extravagance, fluent tongue, frippery, gregariousness, long-windedness, needlessness, pleonasm, superfluousness, verbality, windiness

Definition n. boring verbosity

Last update: August 26, 2015


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Then there is a popular education toward prolixity in the telegraphic part of newspapers.   [Please select]

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"There are infinite kinds of spices which have been seen of which I do not care to speak for fear of prolixity."   [Please select]

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My prolixity over the Volunteer Training Corps came upon me unawares.   [Please select]

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When such a chance offered, it was a common experience with him to be drawn into prolixity.   [Please select]

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It is also infested with the besetting sin of the whole poem, prolixity.   [Please select]

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But I must avoid prolixity, and leave the task of illustrating this by examples to the reader's own reflection.   [Please select]

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War tempts him to prolixity, to classical allusion, even to hexameters of astonishingly loose joints.   [Please select]

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With great prolixity he stated the general case against the three men, and the particular case against Peter Blood, whose indictment was to be taken first.   [Please select]

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This is a small book in which to treat of so large a subject, and to avoid prolixity I have had to generalise.   [Please select]

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