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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The president also joked about the contrast between his own reputation for long-windedness and Reid’s laconic style.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2022
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
There has been plenty of pomp and circumstance, and even more long-windedness, as governors from coast to coast stepped to rostrums this month to deliver their annual State of the State addresses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018
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
His style is marvellously musical but overweighted by his classical long-windedness and difficult syntax.
From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer
