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[ US /ˈwɝdi/ ]
[ UK /wˈɜːdi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. using or containing too many words
    proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes
    long-winded (or windy) speakers
    verbose and ineffective instructional methods
    newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials

How To Use wordy In A Sentence

  • In both the English dub and subtitles, the dialogue is a bit wordy and stilted, but it's rarely distracting.
  • A focus on texts and their position in all kinds of Italian secular vocal music of the time leads to a rather wordy book not very easy to follow in its layout, especially when a music example precedes its reference.
  • I was going to write something more about my experience of travelling around the city, but due to lack of time it's in digestible bullet-point form rather than anything more complicated and wordy.
  • Powerful scenes closely reflecting events in the author's own life are diluted by her wordy and overemphatic commentary. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two days of debate followed, producing formulations ever more tortuous and wordy, amid signs of growing impatience from the public galleries.
  • For me personally, I'm not interested in wordy writing or hyper-critical articles and reviews. Ken's Nostalgic Indiana Jones Adventure - Part 1! « FirstShowing.net
  • Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
  • Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
  • The book is wordy, and repetition of various concepts by different contributors and heaviness on quotations make it slow reading.
  • It was hard to tell which regiment would come off the victor in this wordy battle.
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