(n.) The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
Example Sentences:
(1) But cutting through the legal verbiage, it is possible to reduce them to eight main political sticking points: Timing As with any good meeting, much of the opening energy is likely to be expended on talks about talks.
(2) Now as the Obama administration uses the same verbiage as the Clinton administration used two decades ago, trade experts are alarmed at what is to come.
(3) The second group, ranging from Shakespeare in Love to The Ten Commandments to The Great Escape, rely on slightly more verbiage, and do not transmit as transparent a message as Die Hard or The Godfather, but still manage to convey a fairly good idea of what the picture is about.
(4) Jeter asks: “Why doesn’t he just shut up?” Rodriguez helped create a new phrase in Mets lore – “24 plus one” – which was the verbiage used by then Mets GM Steve Phillips to describe why the team had opted out of the Rodriguez free-agent sweepstakes in 2000.
(5) Eshun says that there were serious structural issues – that, in the exasperating management verbiage, there were too many "silos", each operating independently.
(6) Peres chided “Bibi” for “111 days of verbiage”, and held on as party chairman until Barak ousted him in 1997.
(7) Bill’s weary patter last night on the subjects of working families, and something something community-and-something-something-renewable-energy targets may be carefully constructed verbiage to target we-share-your-concerns to swinging voters, but Labor’s present strategy wholly avoids speaking to those that Labor crucially needs to deliver both an election win and a majority large enough to ensure space for policy implementation and future planning.
(8) There's a lot of verbiage around this issue – a lot of it by critics who don't seem to ever leave their offices, don't know what's happening in the field, don't really see it.
(9) This may not amount to satisfying the latter countries' UN security council aspirations but it was no mere verbiage either.
(10) It is the verbiage of un-reason and it leaves me cold.
(11) If Keaton is good at anything, it's this kind of circumlocutory verbiage.
(12) Like all patent applications, it consists of three coats of prime technical verbiage, and the devil is in the detail, but the essence of it is that in exchange for a monthly payment Facebook users will be able to get rid of ads and specify exactly what should replace them on their personal profiles.
(13) Who said there was already too much verbiage on the net?
(14) No amount of verbiage could disguise his failure to meet his own debt targets or the consequent disappointment of the divided Tory tribe.
(15) The connecting themes of modernity, social mobility and enabling governance were also themes of the outgoing administration, and its patchy record should warn Nick Clegg and David Cameron that use of such verbiage does not guarantee that anything will actually happen.
(16) Fitzgerald said the constitutional ban on using evidence obtained by torture in the Jordanian courts was little more than the "general verbiage to be found in any constitution or human rights instrument" and added little to the existing legal ban.
Word
Definition:
(n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
(n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
(n.) Talk; discourse; speech; language.
(n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
(n.) Signal; order; command; direction.
(n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
(n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
(n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
(v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
(v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.
(v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
(v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole.
Example Sentences:
(1) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
(2) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
(3) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
(4) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(5) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
(6) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
(7) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(8) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(9) The force has given "words of advice" to eight people, all under 25, over messages posted online.
(10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
(13) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
(14) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(15) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
(16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
(17) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(18) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
(19) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
(20) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.