How to Use wordy in a Sentence
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For me, this is all a bit too wordy, too cutesy, and too much.
—New York Times, 21 June 2018
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His first post was so wordy, Blogspot caught it as spam.
—Adam Duvander, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2008
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Talk about run on sentences with grandiose and wordy prose.
—Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2021
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That 2011 test message was a lot wordier than those used now.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
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But, of course, this wordy reason can’t stand on its own verbiage.
—Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2011
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Rock purists weren’t the only ones who rolled their eyes at the wordy song titles and self-conscious lyrics.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
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And something that is cross-wordy and boring would be rated low.
—James Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
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Mateen's fierce shake of his head speaks louder than anything in Sorkin's wordy script.
—Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
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Nobody wants to read an overly wordy newsletter that beats around the bush.
—Yec, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
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Your words have to be clear, especially with the southern dialect in such a wordy song.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
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Before The troll farm’s posts were wordy and included many hashtags.
—Davey Alba, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
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To the extent anyone thinks the IRC is too detailed and too wordy today, Surrey has something to do with that.
—Robert Goulder, Forbes, 8 June 2022
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The Welk’s set pieces and props are just adequate, and there were a couple of blips with the sound in the theater, which muddled some of this show’s witty and wordy lyrics.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
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And the hook here is wordy but memorable — everybody knows and loves the Minnesota Vikings call-out by now.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 9 July 2019
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Toss the wordy-word books aside and begin anew. Brudominasty.
—Evan Dudley, al, 27 Oct. 2022
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Childress and Darrell Bevell installed the wordy West Coast scheme.
—Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2021
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Lamar and Eminem, protégés of sorts, both write wordy, caustic, cerebral raps that move faster than any mind or mouth should.
—Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
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That’s Marie, at the onset of menopause, experiencing a wordy hot flash.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Sep. 2021
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Journaling gets a bad rap; as boring lists or wordy navel-gazing.
—Erin McKittrick, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 July 2017
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Its more formal name is Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, but that may be too wordy for conversations.
—Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 31 July 2019
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Shakespeare is wordy; Molière can be dated; Milton is often dull.
—Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2021
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Gorsuch is also wordy, penning 19 long opinions out of 23.
—Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 3 July 2019
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Those mashed hooks tend to form around the wordy deadpan of vocalist Andy Fox, who sounds completely at home in these riptides of intention.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
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McLaren had drawn up a ceasefire document full of wordy stipulations, which Caver signed in front of Evelyn.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2022
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Before Editor Ji, apps like Inshorts and Shortpedia, were launched to cash in on the demand for less-wordy, short-format news.
—Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 29 July 2019
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And that doesn't include the other slightly wordier ways in which Mueller declined to answer lawmakers' questions.
—CBS News, 24 July 2019
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Perhaps the actors were just trying to remember all the dialogue in Christopher Hampton’s long and wordy play.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2020
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Their nimble way with this wordy text is a thing to behold and illustrates neatly why this play was such an influence on Oscar Wilde.
—Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2017
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There do not need to be multiple footnotes and citations and wordy, number-heavy statements.
—April Rudin, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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Steam | Official site Tired of games that bog you down with hours of wordy tutorials to explain their complex mechanics?
—Kyle Orland and Sarah Leboeuf, Ars Technica, 18 June 2023
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