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prolixity


  • n  boring verbosity

  • His prolixity will seem even more tortured against a candidate as artfully simple as the President.
  • The trouble is that prolixity pays.
  • It is not a full retrospective, but the cream off the milkjust as well, perhaps, in view of the exhausting prolixity and often dilute quality at the lower end of Pollock's .
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  • David Heilpern in BusinessDay.com.au
    Having already criticised the Antagonistic team for blowing $100,000 in preliminary skirmishes, Heilpern added: "Litigation by point scoring, prolixity and intimidation is unlikely to facilitate the quick, just and cheap resolution of this matter."
  • John Marshall in The Evening Sun
    A document any more specific, Marshall wrote for the court in 1819, "would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind."

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