Know Your Next Word : prolix
14. prolix :
adjective :
Tediously wordy
usage :
No one has ever called him prolix. At a future-war seminar that he sponsored, Mr. Andrew Marshall mumbled a few introductory words and then sat in silence, eyebrows arched, arms folded, for the remaining two days. ( James Der Derian : The Illusion of a Grand Strategy : The New York Times : May 25 - 2001.)
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