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wordy Adjective [wordier, wordiest] using too many words, esp. long words: wordy explanations
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wordy adjective long-winded, rambling, windy, diffuse, garrulous, discursive, loquacious, verbose, prolix, pleonastic (rare) << OPPOSITE brief |
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On the contrary, he sat rather mute and receptive before her chatty eagerness to make him feel at home and in face of Gaston's frank and wordy hospitality. The housekeeper and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic order of people, to whom one may at any time safely communicate a remarkable piece of news without incurring the danger of having one's ears pierced by some shrill ejaculation, and subsequently stunned by a torrent of wordy wonderment. The men however, are not quite so harmonious in their utterance, and when excited upon any subject, would work themselves up into a sort of wordy paroxysm, during which all descriptions of rough-sided sounds were projected from their mouths, with a force and rapidity which was absolutely astonishing. |
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