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wordy - use in sentences
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- get: Well, in Perl 6, functional programming just got a whole lot less wordy.
Modifies a noun
- title: Ther is probably not any need for a wordy title beyond the ' official ' title for a service.
- one: It is often more difficult to write a concise dissertation than a wordy one.
- description: Some pictures were taken hopefully someone will have sent some in to accompany my wordy description.
- document: It doesn't have to be a wordy document!
- sentence: Maybe tidying up the odd wordy sentence but otherwise pretty much OK.
- evidence: George Eliot Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Modifying Another Word
- too: The aim can also help you formulate the title of your work, which should be explicit without being too wordy!
- rather: Use the menu bar on the left-hand side of the page to navigate quickly between sections, some of which are rather wordy.
- little: The book is a little wordy in some areas to take up space, but the message and overall content is very good.
- very: UNIX was ported to a number of machines using the very wordy portable C compiler.
- overly: However, I lacked the patience to fully read the text, which is in parts overly wordy.
- unnecessarily: The text explanations of concepts are unclear and unnecessarily wordy, not the worst out there but certainly nothing to scream about.
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