Question

verbiage The agency's report was full of unnecessary verbiage, which someone should have edited out before the report was published. ˈvərbiɪʤ

Accepted Answer

An excess of words, often with little content; wordiness. Government reports are notorious for their unfortunate tendency toward empty verbiage, through part of the reason is simply that officials are anxious to be following all the rules. Legal documents are also generally full of verbiage, partly because lawyers want to be sure that every last possibility has been covered and no loopholes have been left. But writing that contains unneeded verbiage is often trying to disguise its lack of real substance or clarity of thought. And every writer, including government workers and lawyers, should be constantly on the lookout for opportunities to hit the Delete key

word	verbiage
definition	An excess of words, often with little content; wordiness.
eg_sentence	The agency's report was full of unnecessary verbiage, which someone should have edited out before the report was published.
explanation	Government reports are notorious for their unfortunate tendency toward empty verbiage, through part of the reason is simply that officials are anxious to be following all the rules. Legal documents are also generally full of verbiage, partly because lawyers want to be sure that every last possibility has been covered and no loopholes have been left. But writing that contains unneeded verbiage is often trying to disguise its lack of real substance or clarity of thought. And every writer, including government workers and lawyers, should be constantly on the lookout for opportunities to hit the Delete key
IPA	ˈvərbiɪʤ

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