adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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long-winded politicians
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Dad can be so long-winded sometimes, I cringe when he starts talking to someone new.
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Her letters do tend to be a bit long-winded .
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I'm sick of reading badly-written and long-winded scripts by candidates who should know better.
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Jacques launched into a long-winded explanation that left us just as confused as before.
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One long-winded speaker after another came to the podium.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But you don't need to go this long-winded way around doing it.
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Massot was a pleasant but impossibly long-winded Gaul whose briefest reminiscence about his days in the Resistance tended to last an hour.
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Natural language is ambiguous and long-winded and these techniques are much superior.
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No, those long-winded gentlemen put me off sermons for a good long while.
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One wonders what would happen should Mack apply her long-winded principles to herself.
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That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded , but corporate crime is a complex issue.
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The journey was a long-winded one, first by train to Carcassonne and then to Couiza-Montazels.
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This method is, however, a little long-winded if you only want to edit a couple of lines.