verbalistic

So, there I am prepared to pit my verbalistic skills against those of middle schoolers after completing the New York Times crossword in pen, albeit accompanied by a giant bottle of white out -- those NYT puzzle makers can be ingeniously deceiving little devils -- and who pops up on the screen, but the moderator of the contest, Al Roker.

NBC Treats Word Games Like the Olympic Games 2007

But with his magnetic personality, with his verbalistic short-jumps over every objection, with every newspaper and magazine of the land an enthusiastic volunteer in de Mores propaganda, and with the halo of the von Hoffman millions surrounding him and all his deeds, bankers and business men fell into line at the tail of the de Mores chariot.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

Engineering is driving verbalistic philosophy out of existence and humanity gains decidedly thereby.

Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914

Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in existence and daily more active and far reaching, the old verbalistic philosophy and metaphysics have lost their reason to exist.

Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914

That method is inadequate, not because it is too realistic, but because it runs continual risk of being too verbalistic.

The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

They have lagged behind, partly because they have been hampered by the traditions and the habits of a bygone world — they have looked backward instead of forward; they have lagged behind, partly because they have depended upon the barren methods of verbalistic philosophy — they have been metaphysical instead of scientific; they have lagged behind, partly because they have been often dominated by the lusts of cunning “politicians” instead of being led by the wisdom of enlightened statesmen; they have lagged behind, partly because they have been predominantly concerned to protect “vested interests,” upon which they have in the main depended for support; the _fundamental_ cause, however, of their lagging behind is found in the astonishing fact that, despite their being by their very nature most _immediately_ concerned with the affairs of mankind, they have not discovered what Man really is but have from time immemorial falsely regarded human beings either as animals or else as combinations of animals and something supernatural.

Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914

a writer as Mr.F. H. Bradley feels constrained to give these verbalistic thimble riggers a smart rap over the knuckles, as in the following passage: --

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen