as in rambling
using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea
his blog entries generally begin as focused and succinct arguments but too often devolve into logorrheic screeds
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Adjective
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Also in the village, with lower prices, the June Lake Villager Motel is a rambling property beneath a vintage mid-century sign.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026 -
Her editor figured that Bainbridge could get away with a rambling, nostalgic performance.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Sophia wasn’t particularly talkative that evening.—
Dan Turello,
New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2026
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Lopez describes her daughter as an energetic, talkative child who speaks both English and Spanish.—
Leondra Head,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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In these cases, plaintiffs’ attorneys direct clients to adjacent doctors and facilities to generate false or exaggerated diagnoses for the sole purpose of inflating potential settlements and jury verdicts.—
Elizabeth Heck,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
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That belief, when a player’s career is winding down, sometimes leads to an exaggerated sense of self, conflicting with others’ perceptions.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Instead, Reeves became Estragon, the more simplistic and long-suffering of the duo, while Winter tackled Vladimir, the more commanding and verbose character.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Director Richard Linklater is fond of a verbose protagonist; Hawke and Julie Delpy gabbed through three films’ worth of Before movies, after all.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 2025
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In 1949, a young American artist named Ray Johnson left Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C., moved to New York City and began to explore his prolix talents, both visual and verbal.—
Roberta Smith,
New York Times,
30 May 2024
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His answer is this book: a laudably sincere, exasperatingly prolix and occasionally affecting rumination on the state of Egypt—its society, culture, history and politics—pegged to the maddening bureaucracy of the archive.—
Kapil Komireddi,
WSJ,
12 Mar. 2023
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“Logorrheic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logorrheic. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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