Adjective, : She grew impatient at his wordy reply. From Dictionary.com.
Events were moving too fast for her, and too wordily, to take in. From Wordnik.com. [Dearly Beloved] Reference
May 15, 2009 at 3:12 am an neber hab dem words been ment so lishertally…litsherally…wordily. From Wordnik.com. [Diskriminashun! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The inditer has certainly some sympathy with the bearer he so amply commissions and wordily exalts. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
MOOS: Nailing the pronunciation of Pakistan earns Senator Obama of the award for sounding either most wordily or most elite. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2008] Reference
"But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity. Eh?". From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
But observe what people are reading on the bus, or someone on the street tells you what he or she is reading, and it likely isn't the "literary" work that was reviewed rather wordily by a media outlet. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of Newspapers and Book Coverage: A Book Reviewer Roundtable - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games] Reference
But a woman regretted wordily that her husband had just stepped out; he would no doubt be back again immediately; if the Herr would take a chair and wait a little? —, But the thought of waiting made him turn on his heel. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Wherefore he moved into quarters as close to the executive offices as he could possibly get; and in those quarters he worked openly and wordily at the bringing of the affair of Qadgop and the beautiful-but-dumb Cynthia to a satisfactory conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Lens]
At a corner of the ZEITZERSTRASSE, a hand-cart had been overturned, and a crowd had gathered; for, no matter how busy people were, they had time to gape and stare; and they were now as eager as children to observe this incident, in the development of which a stout policeman was wordily authoritative. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
And the king of wrath full wordily with all his intent. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
One could translate rather wordily "make" -- something good or evil -- "one's own.". From Wordnik.com. [Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence] Reference
"Do not contend wordily over matters of no consequence," was her counsel of perfection. From Wordnik.com. [Americans and Others] Reference
Draughtsmen find their clerks wrote loosely and wordily, because they were paid by the folio. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
On that point you will be tongue-tied, though you will talk wordily enough about other things. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Heel] Reference
Ned came over later and we sat on the verandah steps and wordily patronised people who attended churches. From Wordnik.com. [Aleta Dey] Reference
The woman replied that bad-word husbands who stayed out so bad-wordily late ought to be bad-wordily bad-worded. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
When the mothers had wordily gone, she threw open the windows, propped the door wide with a chair, and went to tea. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomplete Amorist] Reference
But here and there, with a curious expression, one is reading a small sort of handbill of anonymous poetry, rather wordily entitled. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
And the two old ladies over their tea by the fire conversed agreeably, compared their rheumatisms and other ailments wordily, and talked of old times, and early recollections, and of sick-beds they had attended, and corpses that "you would not know, so pined and windered" were they; and others so fresh and canny, you'd say the dead had never looked so bonny in life. From Wordnik.com. [J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3] Reference
“still at it,” but much more so to see a book open before him; and he vented his surprise loudly and wordily. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Mostly to explore writing issues, wordily pick at some of the stuff life throws at my windshield, and to interact with other similarly explorative personalities. From Wordnik.com. [October « 2007 « The Life and Times of Organic Mama] Reference
In this current climate of decisiveness AND certainty, Pelosi was oh-so careful to be wordily P.C. to the Dem’s intention of control and her position as the Speaker of the House. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
"climate of hate" on campus with his letter -- a private letter to her that was mysteriously leaked to Coulter-friendly venues like the National Post, Canada's most conservative national newspaper and to newsmax. com, the website that bills itself somewhat wordily as "the leading independent online news site with a conservative perspective.". From Wordnik.com. [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference
Mbeki's biographer struggles mightily-sometimes wordily, drenching his subject in adjectives like "guarded," "paranoid," and "repressed" - to reconcile the brooding recluse who sat up late into the night at his computer in presidential mansions in Cape Town and Pretoria, exploring the speculations of AIDS deniers, with the charming, reassuring diplomatic operative who in the 1980s sold the path of negotiation both to a nervous white establishment and to an underground movement that imagined itself bent on armed struggle. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Review of Books] Reference
Palin blustered wordily: "I'm not looking at poll numbers. From Wordnik.com. [body on the line] Reference
Syria in 1909 to research his Oxford thesis, somewhat wordily titled "The influence of the. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
"When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama's numbers, Palin blustered wordily: 'I'm not looking at poll numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Mbeki's biographer struggles mightily ” sometimes wordily, drenching his subject in adjectives like "guarded," "paranoid," and "repressed" ” to reconcile the brooding recluse who sat up late into the night at his computer in presidential mansions in Cape Town and Pretoria, exploring the speculations of AIDS deniers, with the charming, reassuring diplomatic operative who in the 1980s sold the path of negotiation both to a nervous white establishment and to an underground movement that imagined itself bent on armed struggle. From Wordnik.com. [How Mbeki Failed] Reference
Peter challenged the aphorism, wordily. From Wordnik.com. [Captivating Mary Carstairs] Reference
Didrex profiting traverse chattel slowdown wordily compensations Tito allegra http://allegra.threethreethree.org/. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » 3PM Today: Your Chance to Grill John Snow] Reference
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