prolix
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The world premiere, “Have We Met?!,” choreographed by Juliano Nunes, is a 33-minute, two-part, prolix affair for two featured couples.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025
A certain type of actor thrives in these prolix circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
Netflix, at least, entertained this possibility, and the result is “Army of the Dead,” a prolix heist-horror hybrid whose undeceased are a sight more fun than its living.
From New York Times • May 20, 2021
Re-creating Odysseus’s trip from Troy to Ithaca, they touch on everything from Mick Jagger to mortality, with the witty banter of a prolix Hope and Crosby and the delicacy of a dragonfly’s wing.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2020
This ante-diluvian heraldry is expatiated upon by our author in a manner far too prolix for us to follow him through all his grave statements and learned proofs.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
Vocabulary lists containing prolix
The Scarlet Letter
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