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long winded
adjective as in indirect
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- circular
- circumlocutory
- complicated
- contingent
- crooked
- devious
- discursive
- duplicitous
- erratic
- eventual
- long
- long way home
- long-drawn-out
- long-winded
- meandering
- obscure
- out-of-the-way
- periphrastic
- rambling
- secondary
- serpentine
- sidelong
- sinister
- sinuous
- snaking
- sneaking
- sneaky
- subsidiary
- twisting
- underhand
- vagrant
- wandering
- winding
- zigzag
adjective as in interminable
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adjective as in lengthy
adjective as in long
adjective as in long-winded
adjective as in loquacious
adjective as in mouthy
adjective as in ponderous
adjective as in rambling
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adjective as in redundant
adjective as in repetitious
adjective as in talkative
adjective as in unexciting
adjective as in voluble
adjective as in windy
adjective as in wordy
adjective as in oratorical
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adjective as in conversational
adjective as in long-drawn-out
adjective as in periphrastic
adjective as in pleonastic
adjective as in talky
adjective as in diffuse
adjective as in discursive
adjective as in gabby
adjective as in garrulous
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Example Sentences
His many publications and his emails to me are long-winded, occasionally exaggerated, and sometimes hard to follow.
What do you call a long-winded member of Congress whose opinions infuriate you?
That quote may expose Obama as long-winded, but we knew that.
The downside: Santorum is a long-winded campaigner who gets tangled in talk of subcommittees and amendments.
Basically, Khrushchev was his usual blustering long-winded self and there was no way that David could stop him.
A minister cannot control long-winded gentlemen, and when gentlemen are very long-winded there must be delay.
His novels were terribly long-winded, but there are generations which find such a quality to their taste.
And this he did, though of course not at top speed, the pumas not being a race of long-winded runners like the wolves.
The bully-ragging, long-winded collection letter has no place in self-respecting business.
His Despatches, passionately long-winded, are exceedingly stiff reading to the like of us.
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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to long-winded, such as: chatty, loquacious, rambling, bombastic, gabby, and garrulous.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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