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long-winded ADJ

long-winded
ضافٍ
long-winded
مُفَصَّل

long-winded

long-winded
مُسْتَفِيض
long-winded
مُسْهَب
long-winded
مُطْنَب
long-winded
مُطَوّل

be long-winded VB

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He has a story for every occasion, and will never hesitate in telling it, regardless of how long-winded or irrelevant it is.
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She called it an entertaining but messy and long-winded, commentary on the fiction-making process itself.
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Though polite, he tends to annoy people with his long-winded explanations and excessive use of scientific jargon.
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He rented a big auditorium, invited only a small number of people, and gave a long-winded speech to introduce the candidate.
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Unfortunately, their publications are so complex, long-winded, and obscure that they were virtually inaccessible to antiquaries andit would appear from the replication of effort----even to their own (unacknowledged) colleagues.
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Despite the serious circumstances, he delivers his story in a long-winded and poorly thought-out manner, tendencies he struggles to avoid throughout.
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For most mathematicians, writing a fully formal proof is too pedantic and long-winded to be in common use.
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In the late 1970s, daytime calls longer than three minutes were billed at over $1 per minute to discourage the long-winded.
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Shaggy dog stories are long-winded anti-jokes where the punchline is deliberately anticlimactic, and are not intended to elicit laughter.
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He so fears losing her that he begins acting irrationally, leaving her a long-winded message begging forgiveness for having to cancel dinner because of work.
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