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- adjective Alternative spelling of
long-winded .
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Examples
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This is a kind of longwinded statement about the costs of obtaining energy from nuclear fuel.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 15~ Ideological Unity and Economic Realism 2009
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It's got drama, comedy, tearjerking pathos and even political satire: Caramel finds one of her kids, the "longwinded" one, a home at the White House Capitol.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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It's got drama, comedy, tearjerking pathos and even political satire: Caramel finds one of her kids, the "longwinded" one, a home at the White House Capitol.
Bolling For Dollars Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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But last night he slammed the live debate he had been so desperate to join as "longwinded",
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Hélène Mulholland 2010
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On the trail, Mr. White is prone to longwinded explanations of how he created broad-based coalitions to solve Houston's problems, including the inflow of thousands of refugees after Hurricane Katrina.
In Heat of Contest, Incumbent Is Cool Ana Campoy 2010
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Rather then go into a longwinded discourse "It's a symbolic reminder to hold sacred one's mindful existence..."
Paula Ravets, Ph.D.: The Perfect Carpool: Drive Carefully and Carry a Big Stick Ph.D. Paula Ravets 2011
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If the story is there, somewhere in that longwinded, meandering mess, I can find it and clean off the ugly bits.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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Was this story an attempt to seem "Literary" by avoiding sf tropes in favor of longwinded passages about life, the sea and growing old?
REVIEW: 2008 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees [UPDATED] 2009
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If the story is there, somewhere in that longwinded, meandering mess, I can find it and clean off the ugly bits.
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They are more like interested spectators, running alongside the locomotive of science, playing catch-up in order to figure out what it is doing, and occasionally shouting words of advice to the engineer, who might sometimes nod in interested agreement but is more likely to shrug and ignore the wacky academics with all the longwinded discourses.
October 15th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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