long-winded
adjective
talking or writing at tedious length.
long-windedness
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a word derived from
long-winded.
Example Sentences
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Paradoxically, a 560-page memoir is a safe space in which at last no one can accuse him of long-windedness.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2022
He became helpfully competitive with himself, proudly marking any triumphs over long-windedness.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
He generally resisted the epic long-windedness of nineteenth-century German prose, but here he makes an exception as he verbally acts out the condition of universal flux.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
Hall and Oates then took the stage for speeches so brief they seemed to be a shot at the E Street Band’s long-windedness.
From Time ● Apr. 11, 2014
But Gibbs was prone to long-windedness and to the making of speeches.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
