What's the difference between lordy and wordy?

Lordy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lordy there's a lot of potential Hall of Famers in these two groups, and that's still not mentioning Ray Allen and Manu Ginobili who will be coming off the bench for the Heat and Spurs respectively.
  • (2) Lordy, I hope there are tapes.” In all, Comey put down some tantalising dots for Mueller to join.
  • (3) Their entrant Lordi, with Hard Rock Hallelujah , was all conquering amidst a sea of bland, pretty blond girls.
  • (4) Even if you haven’t actively listened to the album, you’ll know the songs: Honey , with its driving piano riff and Bessie Jones sample “get my honey come back, sometimes”; Natural Blues , featuring another blues sample (“oh lordy, trouble so hard”), this time from Vera Hall.
  • (5) Not since Finnish rockers Lordi swept the board with "Hard Rock Hallelujah" had there been such a unanimous winner.
  • (6) Scores of hapless berks, faces tinged with soot, cooing, "Ooh, me life is ever so poor in England, it is, but lorks o' lordy, a new start in America will be my makin!
  • (7) Lordy, I hope there are tapes.” He added later: “The president surely knows whether he taped and, if he did, my feelings aren’t hurt.
  • (8) Lordy.” The pro-independence blogger Wings over Scotland added: “In fairness, Salmond WAS attempting through democratic means something akin to what Guy Fawkes tried with gunpowder.
  • (9) "Oh lordy, I think they know pretty much everything!"

Wordy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.
  • (superl.) Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.
  • (superl.) Containing many words; full of words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The spouse's communication shows a continuous reciprocal attempt not to define their own relation, by the use of a wide wordiness, that includes different subjects and meanings in a confusive and spiral-shaped sequence.
  • (2) Although he initially found Thomas's wordiness difficult to convey, he was won over by Under Milk Wood 's "craziness".
  • (3) In years to come, the currently wordy declaration could prove to be a point of change.
  • (4) That was Philip Drew, the deputy head, whose stern, wordy, slightly sarcastic admonishments of pupils conformed to traditional stereotypes of how heads behave.
  • (5) The donation, accredited to 28-year-old Evgeny, went to American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's rather wordy cause, the Council of Fashion Designers of America Vogue Fashion Fund.
  • (6) So the "zero draft", as it's named, is a very long, wordy, worthy document.
  • (7) The student style – bouncy energy, fast pace, very wordy – could be dialled down.
  • (8) I don't like 'clever' comedy, it's always far too wordy.
  • (9) But being a wordy sort of person and also much given to fruitless rumination, I would have been more likely to spend 20 minutes and several paras (yes: even in a txt msg) trying to convey perfectly my empathetic rage at her thwarted desire and suggest half-a-dozen doomed compromises ("Perhaps if you left after the first course your great aunt wouldn't be too hurt?").
  • (10) He followed it with Hunky Dory (1972), a mix of wordy, elaborate songwriting ( The Bewlay Brothers or Quicksand ), crunchy rockers ( Queen Bitch ) and infectious pop songs ( Kooks ).
  • (11) Ask me what the greatest influence on the modern English-language novel is, and I won't mention Ulysses (a wordy, self-referential cul-de-sac) and I won't mention Lady Chatterley (honest but snobbish), I will say one word: screen.
  • (12) It was too long, too wordy, too complex for most of them – and getting to the end of it so that they were sufficiently prepared to be able to answer questions on it in an examination context was a slog for them and for me.
  • (13) Instead, the document is dominated by wordy phrases about the necessity of attaining social and economic development in those countries.
  • (14) There is a theory that domestic violence occurs when men run out of words and we could be dealing with a related strain – the dull-minded bloke, imagining himself a romantic but getting all tired at the thought of wordy passion, flexing his fingers instead.
  • (15) The question being asked is wordy and vague, its legal consequence unclear, and its primary context seems parochial.

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