LONG-WINDED


Meaning of LONG-WINDED in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

long-winded politicians

Dad can be so long-winded sometimes, I cringe when he starts talking to someone new.

Her letters do tend to be a bit long-winded .

I'm sick of reading badly-written and long-winded scripts by candidates who should know better.

Jacques launched into a long-winded explanation that left us just as confused as before.

One long-winded speaker after another came to the podium.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But you don't need to go this long-winded way around doing it.

Massot was a pleasant but impossibly long-winded Gaul whose briefest reminiscence about his days in the Resistance tended to last an hour.

Natural language is ambiguous and long-winded and these techniques are much superior.

No, those long-winded gentlemen put me off sermons for a good long while.

One wonders what would happen should Mack apply her long-winded principles to herself.

That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded , but corporate crime is a complex issue.

The journey was a long-winded one, first by train to Carcassonne and then to Couiza-Montazels.

This method is, however, a little long-winded if you only want to edit a couple of lines.

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