Crossword-Solution: PROLIXITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prolixity | n. | The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “PROLIXITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| boring verbosity | 1 answer |
| verboseness | 17 answers |
| periphrasis | 17 answers |
| verbal effusion | 18 answers |
| using euphemisms | 18 answers |
| circumlocution | 18 answers |
| pleonasm | 19 answers |
| verbosity | 19 answers |
| tautology | 19 answers |
| Verbiage | 19 answers |
| wordiness | 20 answers |
| loquacity | 25 answers |
| verbalism | 25 answers |
| windiness | 25 answers |
| diffuseness | 28 answers |
| redundancy | 36 answers |
| output | 38 answers |
| roundabout | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROLIXITY (5)
Soon, likewise, my old native town will loom upon me through the haze of memory, a mist brooding over and around it; as if it were no portion of the real earth, but an overgrown village in cloud-land, with only imaginary inhabitants to people its wooden houses and walk its homely lanes, and the unpicturesque prolixity of its main street.
The monkey, meanwhile, with a thick tail curling out into preposterous prolixity from beneath his tartans, took his station at the Italian’s feet.
Then, to the mind when adequately trained, we shall be right in handing over the more particular care of the body; and in order to avoid prolixity we will now only give the general outlines of the subject.
Not a syllable, not a glance or gesture of Ramy's, was the elder sister spared; and with unconscious irony she found herself comparing the details of his proposal to her with those which Evelina was imparting with merciless prolixity.
Mildred dreamt a great deal, and she had an accurate memory for her dreams, which she would relate every day with prolixity.
Quotes with PROLIXITY (2)
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
To use the term 'clerk' as an insult is simply a banal vulgarity; Pessoa and Svevo, however would have welcomed it as a just attribute of the poet. The latter does not resemble Achilles or Diomedes, ranting on their war-chariots, but is more like Ulysses, who knows that he is no one. He manifests himself in this revelation of impersonality that conceals him in the prolixity of things, as travelling erases the traveller in the confused murmur of the street.