| 单词 | verbiage |
| 释义 | verbiage (once / 11543 pages) n Verbiage is what it sounds like — a lot of words: verbs, nouns, adjectives and all the other parts of speech. Usually, verbiage means a few too many words — like the excessive verbiage in a legal document. Verbiage comes from the 18th-century French verbier, meaning "to chatter." Verbiage can mean just the words being used to communicate, or a bunch of empty words used to obscure communication. Someone long-winded might receive a sarcastic "compliment" about his verbiage, while another speaker might receive genuine applause for intelligent verbiage, or choice of words. WORD FAMILYverbiage USAGE EXAMPLESThe black characters are near-racist caricatures puking up demented Marxist-Leninist verbiage while eating fried chicken and cradling machine guns. The Guardian(Nov 23, 2016) I’ve just got to get the terminology and verbiage together,” Davis said. Washington Times(Oct 26, 2016) “We will destroy you!” she barks at the feds, once again adopting “war on terror” verbiage — not a promising route to success. New York Times(Aug 24, 2016) 1n overabundance of words Syn|Hyper verbalism verboseness, verbosity an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words 2n the manner in which something is expressed in words "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton Syn|Hypo|Hyper choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, wording mot juste the appropriate word or expression verbalisation, verbalizationthe words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization expression, formulation the style of expressing yourself |
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