prolixly

1 The speech was unnecessarily prolix.

2 a person known for habitually transforming brief anecdotes into prolix sagas that exhaust their listeners

3 The album is a concise, 10-song set, a deliberate contrast to prolix streaming-era albums like the ones released lately by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.

4 A certain type of actor thrives in these prolix circumstances.

5 His answer is this book: a laudably sincere, exasperatingly prolix and occasionally affecting rumination on the state of Egypt—its society, culture, history and politics—pegged to the maddening bureaucracy of the archive.

6 Most books and essays published these days are too long: gummed up with adjectives and pointless asides, laden with prolix displays of expertise.

7 There’s a hypnotic quality to this freewheeling central section, a sustained charge that falters in some of the more prolix passages around it.

8 Ames’s ruminations on the soul are prolix, philosophical, and profoundly sad.

9 Why would any presenter be prolix and wear out their welcome with any audience?

10 Yet readers today are often deterred by Conrad’s convoluted, prolix style.

1 冗长

wordish long endless lengthy mortal redundant diffuse tiring tiresome verbose long-winded interminable prolix pleonastic longwinded periphrastic lengthily verboseness redundancy verbiage verbosity wordiness prolixity wordage verbalism lengthiness

2 长篇大论

screed fat report

3 冗长地

lengthily