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  • a  tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
    editing a prolix manuscript
    a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know

  • His prose was more prolix than profound and it took a good deal of resolve for the reader to go through to the end.
  • He wanders through his speech, taking obscure and prolix detours into blind alleys.
  • Warren was a prolix and poetic writer, and a man torn between conflicting loyalties.
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  • Maureen Dowd in Variety
    It's difficult to remember those blissful times when the Internet was "that prolix paradise where we would express ourselves freely, at any level, high or low, with no inhibitions," writes Maureen Dowd of the New York Times.

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