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Definition

using or containing too many words

Her papers tend to be too verbose.

verbose = wordy (using too many words)

In a comparison, sample "A" is too verbose, but sample "B" is too ambiguous.

verbose = wordy (using too many words)

I completed a first draft. Now I want to make it less verbose.

verbose = wordy (with too many words)

The programming language is verbose—making it easier to read, but harder for an expert to grasp the big picture.

verbose = wordy (using many words)

I know I'm kind of infamous for my .... um .... verbosity ....
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

verbosity = wordiness (tendency to use too many words)

He seemed fond of his grandmother and used to her, but her verbosity produced in him a kind of soberly observant speechlessness.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

verbosity = wordiness (tendency to use too many words)

-if my sister was long-winded on the phone, her e-mails were equally verbose.
Sarah Dessen -- Just Listen

verbose = wordy (using or containing too many words)

But I thought that was perhaps no more than a natural reserve accentuated by the verbose frankness of her husband.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Moon and Sixpence
The result was livelier but still too verbose.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost
There was evidently not space enough for his drunken verbosity and Mitya not only filled the margins but had written the last line right across the rest.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
Yet another round in the endless verbosity about the Accords.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
What he had to say was confused, halting, and verbose; but Philip knew the words which served as the text of his rambling discourse.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
The persecutors denied that there was any particular gift in Mr. Chadband's piling verbose flights of stairs, one upon another, after this fashion.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
A large, overstocked wagon belonging to John stood in front of the foreman's shack, the driver equally as big as Mr. Williamson, and equally verbose.
Stephen King -- Rose Red
Observers have described Charlestonians as vainglorious, obstinate, mercurial, verbose, xenophobic, and congenitally gracious.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Neither of us was what anyone would call verbose, and I didn't know what there was to say regardless.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
Never verbose in social gatherings even in his own language, "the good doctor" sat in the salons of Paris, looking on benevolently, a glass of champagne in hand, rarely saying anything.
David McCullough -- John Adams
His colleague was silent, having just before privately received a severe lecture about his emetic, so that this good Canivet, so arrogant and so verbose at the time of the clubfoot, was to-day very modest.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
Levin smiled joyfully; he was struck by this transition from the confused, verbose discussion with Pestsov and his brother to this laconic, clear, almost wordless communication of the most complex ideas.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

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