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What (who) is verbiage - definition
Verbiage
SPEECH OR WRITING THAT USES MORE WORDS THAN NECESSARY
Perissologia; Logorrhoea (linguistics); Sesquipedalianism; Macrologia; Verbal diarrhea; Verbal Diarrhoea; Prolix; Verbose; Verboseness; Talkative; Garrulous; Garrulousness; Garrulity; Prolixities; Verbiage; Wordiness; Wordy; Loquaciousness; Loquatiousness; Logorrhoea (rhetoric); Logorrhea (rhetoric); Prolixity; Gobshite; Expatiation; Loquacious; Overwriting (prose); Draft:Overwriting (prose); Word messiness
·noun The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
verbiage
SPEECH OR WRITING THAT USES MORE WORDS THAN NECESSARY
Perissologia; Logorrhoea (linguistics); Sesquipedalianism; Macrologia; Verbal diarrhea; Verbal Diarrhoea; Prolix; Verbose; Verboseness; Talkative; Garrulous; Garrulousness; Garrulity; Prolixities; Verbiage; Wordiness; Wordy; Loquaciousness; Loquatiousness; Logorrhoea (rhetoric); Logorrhea (rhetoric); Prolixity; Gobshite; Expatiation; Loquacious; Overwriting (prose); Draft:Overwriting (prose); Word messiness
When the context involves a software or hardware system, this
refers to documentation. This term borrows the connotations
of mainstream "verbiage" to suggest that the documentation is
of marginal utility and that the motives behind its production
have little to do with the ostensible subject.
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verbiage
SPEECH OR WRITING THAT USES MORE WORDS THAN NECESSARY
Perissologia; Logorrhoea (linguistics); Sesquipedalianism; Macrologia; Verbal diarrhea; Verbal Diarrhoea; Prolix; Verbose; Verboseness; Talkative; Garrulous; Garrulousness; Garrulity; Prolixities; Verbiage; Wordiness; Wordy; Loquaciousness; Loquatiousness; Logorrhoea (rhetoric); Logorrhea (rhetoric); Prolixity; Gobshite; Expatiation; Loquacious; Overwriting (prose); Draft:Overwriting (prose); Word messiness
If you refer to someone's speech or writing as verbiage, you are critical of them because they use too many words, which makes their speech or writing difficult to understand. (FORMAL)
Stripped of their pretentious verbiage, his statements come dangerously close to inviting racial hatred.
= waffle
N-UNCOUNT [disapproval]
Examples of use of verbiage
1. But all of this polite verbiage conceals stark realities.
2. Some nation‘s policing of language has gone far beyond the verbiage in their constitution.
3. That‘s the thing about modern verbiage; it‘s the language of forced optimism.
4. What differences there are are primarily in blah–blah political verbiage.
5. Her verbiage may just be a nervous tic that comes out in interviews.