[每日] verbiage (n) 冗言
Word of the Day (Monday September 29, 2008)
verbiage \VUR-bee-ij\, noun:
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1. An overabundance of words; wordiness.
2. Manner or style of expression; diction.
The sheer volume of verbiage he has expelled over eight years is
enough to make John Updike look blocked.
-- Andrew Sullivan, "Sounds of Silence", New Republic, January 15,
2001
Points like these seem so self-evident as not to merit much
repeating, but in the professional literature they appear all the
time, slightly dressed up in academic verbiage.
-- Michael Barrett, "The Case for More School Days", The Atlantic,
November 1990
She also indulged in flowery verbiage that her classmates called
"H.D." for "heightened diction."
-- John Habich, "Mother Country", Minneapolis Star Tribune, April
25, 2001
Verbiage comes from French, ultimately from Latin verbum, "word."
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