lengthy
adjective
having or being of great length; very long.
lengthiness
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a word derived from
lengthy.
Example Sentences
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The lengthiness of that process aside, there isn’t the faintest hint of legal violations — nor does the New York Post’s story suggest as much.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
And often lengthiness can be the absolute soul of wit, as in Proust or Dickens.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2019
Even the lengthiness weights and certifies a story that, if told concisely, could merely seem lurid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Therefore when, by the mere reason of the lengthiness of their suffering, they threaten to establish the fact of the tune to be a noise, one need not be anxious about music.
From The Spirit of Japan by Rabindranath Tagore
The following is a faithful quotation from his words, but from the lengthiness of his narrative parts, only have been given.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
