wordy in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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wordy <-ier, iest> [ˈwɜ:dɪ, Am ˈwɜ:r-] ADJ

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However, none of the entrants were selected as the stronger candidates were seen as too wordy.
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He is known for unnecessarily long and wordy prose, along with highly obscure allusions.
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He is known for his wordy and overly technical explanations of scientific and paranormal phenomena.
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This is pure imagination, a period piece, literate some might say wordy.
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His history texts and articles carried his personal, if wordy, enthusiastic style which helped to popularize local history studies.
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It is an extremely wordy romantic comedy full of twists and turns.
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One of the wordy ones.
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The script remained a wordy stage play hardly the best basis for a film.
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Some argue that "active voice" is more muscular, direct, and succinct, "passive voice" flabbier, more indirect, and wordier.
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Some audience members even mentioned that the wordy script worked much better in a reading than in a fully mounted show.
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