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verbiage
[ vur-bee-ij ]
noun
- overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- manner or style of expressing something in words; wording:
a manual of official verbiage.
verbiage
/ ˈvɜːbɪɪdʒ /
noun
- the excessive and often meaningless use of words; verbosity
- rare.diction; wording
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Word History and Origins
Origin of verbiage1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of verbiage1
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Example Sentences
While the answer contained additional verbiage, it maintains the same low level of intellectual content.
Political correctness was not part of her vocabulary, but anti-Semitic verbiage was.
But the flood of Joan Rivers-style verbiage about her day-to-day wardrobe has overwhelmed those nuanced conversations.
With a Romney-tilting audience, the nervous verbiage sounded even worse than it was.
Such verbiage and dithering in the face of market mayhem helped Europe get into its mess in the first place.
Jimmy was commissioned to anglicize a proper proposal and André spent hours in repeating the verbiage as taught.
What a collection of hopeless babblers, what a lot of superfluous verbiage, what an amount of wasted breath!'
The chapters are well condensed, nowhere burdened with verbiage, yet sufficiently full to serve the purpose in view.
I do not see how there can be a doubt; and yet, as I have said, it seems to me that a great deal of it is unnecessary verbiage.
"The intention is a commendable one, though expressed with unnecessary verbiage," replied Ning.
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