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- adjective
superlative form ofwordy : mostwordy .
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Examples
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It's not only one of the world's greatest wines, but it sports possibly the world's wordiest label.
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The two Terroirs (there is also one on the Lower East Side) easily qualify as the wine bar with the wordiest list (sometimes a single grape gets an entire page) and sometimes the most militant techniques.
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His crowd was “the cleverest, wordiest, quickest people in London,” as his rival “Chips” Channon — the bitchy, social-climbing, and unaccountably brilliant diarist — described it, and he married no less than the reigning beauty of the age: the brightest of the bright young things, witty, intelligent Lady Diana Manners, youngest daughter of the Duke of Rutland.
Charm Offensive 2007
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She declares them to be "the wordiest and most writerly generation in a long while" and anoints their conversational tendency to quote TV shows and films an admirable form of "intertextuality."
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His crowd was “the cleverest, wordiest, quickest people in London,” as his rival “Chips” Channon — the bitchy, social-climbing, and unaccountably brilliant diarist — described it, and he married no less than the reigning beauty of the age: the brightest of the bright young things, witty, intelligent Lady Diana Manners, youngest daughter of the Duke of Rutland.
Charm Offensive 2007
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The few occasions I organized a conference panel (meaning I had to look over and edit all of the abstracts before submitting them) I was amazed at how the most senior members of the group insisted on being latest and wordiest (and they were still revising the talk the morning of).
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Wow, that has to be some of the wordiest casino spam ever.
Tringo TV?! 2006
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It needs saying that The Unutterable sees Smith at his wordiest for a long time though the usual subjects are referenced - celebrities (this time Oprah, Pete Tong, Alan Brazil amongst others), drugs (in the extraordinarily powerful ‘Ketamine Sons’), politics (‘Devolute’) and, a particularly frightening subject for him, an alcohol-free police state (‘Sons of Temperance’).
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The wordiest, crankiest band in the world, the Fall - Mark E. Smith and his rhythm grinders from Manchester, E.gland - are back upon us and will play the Middle E.st Downstairs April 3 with Bush Tetras, part of a brief US tour.
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Southey, and of the early poems of Shelley, of Scott at his wordiest.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919
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