What's the difference between wordy and wormy?

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.

Wormy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Containing a worm; abounding with worms.
  • (superl.) Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most conspicuous and prevalent helminth was C. complanatum as fish were "wormy" and unmarketable due to the presence of high numbers of metacercariae.
  • (2) The impact of targetted treatment depends critically on the factors that generate heterogeneity in parasite burdens and on whether or not selectivity is based on a single or repeated identification of the 'wormy' fraction of the community.
  • (3) The findings over a 12-month follow-up period after one treatment included: mean monthly incidence of 20%, higher and more rapid return to previous prevalence and intensity of infection in children or 'wormy' persons than in adults or 'non-wormy' persons.
  • (4) Wormy individuals with heavy infections are shown to be predisposed to this state such that they reacquire heavier than average worm burdens following treatment.

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