Lengthy Crossword Clue [Solved]

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Answer : LONG WINDED

long-winded – adjective

tediously long in speaking or writing

SYNONYMS

circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, garrulous, logorrheic, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy

IN A SENTENCE

His speeches tend to be rather long-winded.

The manifesto is long-winded, repetitious and often ambiguous or poorly drafted.

I hope I’m not being too long-winded.

The whole process is incredibly long-winded.

One long-winded speaker after another came to the podium.

ETYMOLOGY

also longwinded, 1580s, “given to lengthy speeches,” from long (adj.) + adjective from wind (n.1) in the secondary Middle English sense “breath in speaking” (early 14c.). “Using much breath,” hence “tedious from length.”

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