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- she used a lengthy piece of rope to tie her dog to a tree
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- the store manager gives new associates a lengthy sermon on the evils of shoplifting
Synonyms for lengthy
- extended,
- far,
- great,
- long,
- long-drawn-out
- (or long-drawn),
- long-lived,
- long-term,
- marathon
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Is There a Difference Between ‘Long’ and ‘Lengthy?’
When some things just go on and on.
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“Lengthy.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lengthiness. Accessed 21 November 2019.
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The first known use of lengthy was in 1689
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