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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long-winded
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ long-winded politicians
▪ Dad can be so long-winded sometimes, I cringe when he starts talking to someone new.
▪ Her letters do tend to be a bit long-winded.
▪ I'm sick of reading badly-written and long-winded scripts by candidates who should know better.
▪ Jacques launched into a long-winded explanation that left us just as confused as before.
▪ One long-winded speaker after another came to the podium.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But you don't need to go this long-winded way around doing it.
▪ Massot was a pleasant but impossibly long-winded Gaul whose briefest reminiscence about his days in the Resistance tended to last an hour.
▪ Natural language is ambiguous and long-winded and these techniques are much superior.
▪ No, those long-winded gentlemen put me off sermons for a good long while.
▪ One wonders what would happen should Mack apply her long-winded principles to herself.
▪ That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded, but corporate crime is a complex issue.
▪ The journey was a long-winded one, first by train to Carcassonne and then to Couiza-Montazels.
▪ This method is, however, a little long-winded if you only want to edit a couple of lines.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Long-winded

Long-winded \Long"-wind"ed\, a.

  1. Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker.

    A tedious, long-winded harangue.
    --South.

  2. using or containing too many words; as, long-winded (or windy) speakers.

    Syn: tedious, verbose, windy, wordy. [WordNet 1.5] -- Long"-wind"ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
long-winded

also longwinded, 1580s, "given to lengthy speeches," from long (adj.) + wind (n.) in the secondary Middle English sense "breath in speaking" (early 14c.).

Wiktionary
long-winded

a. Tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; unnecessarily verbose.

WordNet
long-winded

adj. using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" [syn: tedious, verbose, windy, wordy]

Usage examples of "long-winded".

Afterward, he and Gaye had wandered through the Burrows, the surface-and-tunnel community of the local halflings, then through orderly Giff-Town, with its quaint and long-winded signs.

CloudTunnel network to make roting or floating their way there too long-winded.

Schwerin Webmaster ordered a copy while it was still available, for his Internet site bristles with Grimm quotations and polemical retorts to the admittedly long-winded defense offered by Curti.

This attack was commenced by the ladies, but it was continued throughout the dinner by the fat-headed old gentleman next the parson with the persevering assiduity of a slow hound, being one of those long-winded jokers who, though rather dull at starting game, are unrivalled for their talents in hunting it down.

Without a hortatory tone, to which, actually, I have no right, I intend to pronounce my parting words in the tones of an old friend who is listened to with half-condescending, half-impatient attention, if only he does not become excessively long-winded.

Mercifully, this High Septon was not as long-winded as the fat one had been.

Vulcans always so long-winded, she wondered as Sorren prattled on, or had her patience worn as thin as her aging skin?

Genet, who tried tactfully to convince Adams he would do better with his French readers if he were not quite so long-winded.

The action, such as it was, revolved around the Emperor Drone-on, played by Laevo himself, whose long-winded speeches invariably descended from pompous philosophizing into downright idiocy, while at the same time managing to ridicule all those around him.

Andy goes into a long-winded explanation, the gist of which is that the revitalizers stir up cytoplasm in animal cells and refresh them.

Insult gentle and long-winded Minister of Works directly in sorest point of his vanity?

Insult the gentle and long-winded Minister of Works directly in the sorest point of his vanity?

For Viv, it was the perfect moment to bring the long-winded speaker some water.

And though she often complained in private about their long-winded orations, in public she was the benevolent monarch.

He larded his sermons with quotations from English literature and poetry in an attempt to show erudition, but the effect only seemed pompous and long-winded.