prolix

• “Thus "the beadle whipped the beggar," in prolix language might be expressed, the beadle with a whip struck in time past the beggar.”

  Note XIV

• “As a teacher of college English, I love the way you use the words "prolix" and "occlude".”

  WalMart, SchmalMart

• “Its narrative drags along and itsnarrator's language is leaden and unnecessarily prolix to theextent thatI mostly had to force myself to finish the book.”

  The Reading Experience

• “In fact, the distances she needs to bridge are far greater than Orwell's – Wigan miners weren't to old Etonians as hill tribes are to metropolitan Indians – and her writing is more prolix and melodramatic.”

  The Guardian: Arundhati Roy: India's bold and brilliant daughter

• “Subsequent to the allegations of research misconduct, his responses have been prolix, confusing, evasive and occasionally contradictory.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Book Coming Soon from Michael Bellesiles

• “With more than 50 million Larsson books sold world-wide, publishers scrambled to anoint his literary heir—preferably a political and prolix Scandinavian.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Tattooed by Politics

• “Will Self indulged in a prolix exchange on the subject of branding; Mark Dolan of Balls of Steel hosted a chat show; and comedian Adam Riches challenged the crowd to Swingball.”

  The Guardian: The art of banter: 'It's like a boxing match. It can be bruising'

• “There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it.”

  The Guardian: Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating

• “For these sceptics, the voluminous literature on the subject amounts to nothing more than a prolix reply to a simple question: "What will I drink with dinner tonight?”

  The Guardian: The best wine and food matches

• “Everyone hates the prolix Gaddafi, particularly Arab despots who he routinely blasts as "old women in robes," "Zionist lackeys," and "cowards and thieves.”

  The Huffington Post: Eric Margolis: After Bombing Libya, What Now?

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