Crossword-Solution: VERBIAGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Verbiage | n. | The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “VERBIAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| overabundance of words | 1 answer |
| excessive use of words | 1 answer |
| What purple prose and technical jargon have in common | 1 answer |
| Speaker's specialty. | 1 answer |
| Long-windedness | 1 answer |
| An excess of words | 1 answer |
| WORDS, needless accumulation of | 2 answers |
| NEEDLESS accumulation of words | 2 answers |
| Excess of words | 2 answers |
| The way we word | 3 answers |
| Choice of words | 4 answers |
| verboseness | 17 answers |
| periphrasis | 17 answers |
| verbal effusion | 18 answers |
| using euphemisms | 18 answers |
| prolixity | 18 answers |
| circumlocution | 18 answers |
| verbosity | 19 answers |
| tautology | 19 answers |
| pleonasm | 19 answers |
| wordiness | 20 answers |
| verbalism | 25 answers |
| loquacity | 25 answers |
| windiness | 25 answers |
| diffuseness | 28 answers |
| redundancy | 36 answers |
| output | 38 answers |
| wording | 45 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with VERBIAGE (5)
The {GNU} version of {EMACS} actually has a command that randomly inserts a bunch of insidious anarcho-verbiage into your edited text.
Once, twice, and thrice I tried to slide the subject in, but was discouraged by the stoic apathy of Rufe, and beaten down before the pouring verbiage of his wife.
But the latter abound so that we can afford to overlook the innumerable failures and self‐deceptions that are mixed in with them (for in everything human failure is a matter of course), and we can also overlook the verbiage of a good deal of the mind‐cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trained intellect finds it almost impossible to read it at all.
Then the love-thoughts of the heart clothed themselves simply and naturally as the heart conceived them, nor sought to commend themselves by forced and rambling verbiage.
Where there is merely a column to fill, poverty of thought drives the hackney author into an illicit fulness, until the trick of verbiage passes from his practice into his creed, and makes him the dupe of his own puppets.
Quotes with VERBIAGE (3)
Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can believers presume to know that these assertions are true? The reasons they give are various, but the ultimate justification for most religious people’s beliefs is a simple one: we believe what we believe because our holy scriptures say so. But how, then, do we know that our holy scriptures are factually accurate? Because the…
he looked at her, stripped naked for the instant of verbiage and deceit.
The campaign website was funded by Armistead, and he personally authored the content. He was determined that the campaign's values and goals would fit on one page. The website developer, who was experienced with political campaigns, was opposed to this. He lobbied for detailed policy statements and explanations, which was the conventional approach. But Armistead disagreed. The website developer thus learned that day that core principles were more important than thousands of words of speculative verbiage.
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Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1967–2023).