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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
worded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ambiguously worded
▪ The legislation had been ambiguously worded.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
strongly
▪ On the eve of the talks, the two sides had exchanged strongly worded statements on the issue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It also has a beautifully worded copper plaque.
▪ Joseph Pease, the board's president, approved a tactfully worded reply to the Dronfield parents.
▪ On the eve of the talks, the two sides had exchanged strongly worded statements on the issue.
▪ Similarly worded questions over time have to take account of changes in the topics under question.
▪ Some areas of policy may be the subject only of unspecific recommendations, perhaps setting out a range of loosely worded options.
▪ That is not clear from the way that the Bill is worded.
▪ You only need more patience to unravel a complexly worded question, not necessarily more ability.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Worded

Word \Word\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wording.]

  1. To express in words; to phrase.

    The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince.
    --Addison.

  2. To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words. [Obs.]
    --Howell.

  3. To flatter with words; to cajole. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    To word it, to bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] ``To word it with a shrew.''
    --L'Estrange.

Wiktionary
worded

vb. (en-past of: word)

Usage examples of "worded".

In an interview with Rolling Stone in January 1970, four months after he had left the group, John still worded his interviews to give the impression that the group still existed: RITCHIE YORKE: When you are about to record a new Beatles album, do you feel very excited about it?

They had gotten a bluntly worded order to move from their usual grounds near the Asur Islands and make their way to the deep water near Bamude.

Gifted lived there with his Susan,--and what had happened might happen again,--and gave Master Byles Gridley a formal and most persuasively worded invitation to come up and make his home with them at The Poplars.

The Dewan, with wide precaution, took care that the document was so worded that General Baptiste was the official promiser, putting in a clause that he, Sewlal, the Minister, would see that the General carried out these promises on behalf of Sindhia.

The persons who did not come wrote letters full of incongruities cleverly worded, which I took good care not to point out to him.

Especially since you worded the statement to make it plain the money would be paid only if Dinah is found alive and well.

To be sure, impressions passed unsummoned through his mind, but they were, for the greater part, surd images lacking the linear logic of worded thought.

The blurb was worded to persuade cynics like me that hiring an escort was no iffier than hiring a carpet shampooer, and a lot more fun.

When the Great Tergiversator rises in this House to deliver one of his magnificently worded and delivered speeches, rest assured there is always a hidden motive!

Joel Flint and Signer Canova too, with scattered among them and marking the date of that death too, the cautiously worded advertisements in Variety and Billboard, using the new changed name and no takers probably, since Signer Canova the Great was already dead then and already serving his purgatory in this circus for six months and that circus for eightbandsman, ringman, Bornean wild man, down to the last stage where he touched bottom: the travelling from country town to country town with a roulette wheel wired against imitation watches and pistols which would not shoot, until one day instinct perhaps showed him one more chance to use the gift again.

It was the most public and the most strongly worded demarche from State Department servants to the State Department that has ever been recorded.

Some of these constitutional enactments are most magniloquently worded, but not always with precise grammatical correctness.

He took a quick look at the bill sent by the building management, read the politely worded note written in fine, Spencerian handwriting, and made a resolution to pay up the rent as soon as he had some money.

Read, fascinated as Hron, Marava, and the others worded their message, unpacking and consuming as they did so one of those tremendous meals Adepts ate.

The persons who did not come wrote letters full of incongruities cleverly worded, which I took good care not to point out to him.