diffuse

• You had better read the text without the notes; they are diffuse, and tend to distract the attention. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
• His style was diffuse, affected, and obscure; but Seneca, who tells us this, and gives some examples which justify the criticism, tells us at the same time that his genius was massive and masculine ( grande et virile ), and that he would have been eminent for eloquence, if fortune had not spoiled him. —  Horace
• Cloudy, diffuse, as if it issued from several throats at once.
• It was diffuse, apt to pursue a topic into details, when these might have been left to the reader's own reflection. —  William Ewart Gladstone
• My mental images of the greater York metropolitan region have always been sort of dull and diffuse -- generic just-off-I-83 bedroom communities, discount liquor stores, and acre after acre of Amish-made-shed dealerships. —  Baltimore City Paper

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