verbiage
11verbiage — (vèr bi a j ) s. m. Abondance de paroles et absence d idées. • Ma plume a fait le reste ; car je vous assure que les plumes ont grand part à l infinité du verbiage dont nous remplissons nos lettres, SÉV. 5 janv. 1676. • Il s était mis en… …
12verbiage — noun Etymology: French, from Middle French verbier to chatter, alteration of Old French verboier, verbloier, from Old French (Picard dialect) werbler to trill more at warble Date: circa 1721 1. a profusion of words usually of little or obscure… …
13VERBIAGE — s. m. Abondance de paroles qui ne disent presque rien, qui contiennent peu de sens. Il n y a que du verbiage dans ce livre, dans ce discours. C est un verbiage continuel. Il est familier …
14VERBIAGE — n. m. Abondance de paroles qui ne disent presque rien, qui contiennent peu de sens. Il n’y a que du verbiage dans ce livre, dans ce discours. C’est un verbiage continuel …
15verbiage — noun /ˈvɜː(ɹ).bi.ɪdʒ/ a) Overabundance of words use concise military verbiage Usage note: because of the pejorative connotation of the primary definition of verbiage it is preferred to use diction, phrasing, etc. to describe the manner in which… …
16verbiage — [[t]vɜ͟ː(r)biɪʤ[/t]] N UNCOUNT (disapproval) 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… …
17verbiage — /verr bee ij/, n. 1. overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity. 2. manner or style of expressing something in words; wording: a manual of official verbiage. [1715 25; < F, equiv. to MF verbi(er) to… …
18verbiage — ver|bi|age [ˈvə:bi ıdʒ US ˈvə:r ] n [U] formal [Date: 1700 1800; : French; Origin: Old French verbier to talk a lot , from verbe; VERB] speech or writing that has many unnecessary words in it ▪ meaningless verbiage …
19verbiage — noun (U) formal too many unnecessary words in speech or writing: eliminate irrelevant verbiage …
20verbiage — /ˈvɜbiɪdʒ / (say verbeeij) noun abundance of useless words, as in writing or speech; wordiness: *An essential book, however, is one wherein the simple words, such as whereas, wherefore and withal – words which eliminate verbiage when used… …
