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111loquacious — adj 1. talkative, garrulous, voluble, multiloquous, long tongued, Inf. big mouthed, Sl. all jaw, Sl. gassy, Sl. windy; chattering, chatty, gabby, gibbering, babbling, blabbering, blathering, jabbering, gossipy, Inf. blessed with or possessed of… …
112mealy-mouthed — adj 1. mincing, overnice, nice, overdelicate, delicate, overdainty, dainty, euphemistic, euphemistical, euphemious, affected; priggish, prim, proper, Sl. uptight; tartuffian, pious, moral, self righteous, sanctimonious, holier than thou,… …
113meandering — adj 1. circuitous, indirect, devious; anfractuous, winding, turning, sinuous, serpentine, snaky, tortuous, vermicular, vermiculate; roundabout, ambagious, flexuous, curvy, curved, wavy, undulating; spiraling, circling, convoluted, volute, coiled; …
114mouthy — adj loud mouthed, vociferous, vociferant, strepitous, strepitant, boisterous, clamorous, noisy; loud, loud voiced, big voiced, clarion voiced; ranting, bombastic, fustian, high sounding, high flown, lofty; inflated, pretentious, pompous, turgid,… …
115needless — adj 1. unnecessary, uncalled for, gratuitous, unneeded, unwanted; unessential, nonessential, useless, dispensable, expendable; superfluous, redundant, supererogatory, Fr. de trop. excess, in excess, spare; tautological, pleonastic, expletive,… …
116oblique — adj 1. slanting, sloping, slated, inclined, tilted, atilt, listing, canting; diagonal, abaxial, pla gihedral, rhomboidal, eater cornered; All Geol. synclinal, anticlinal, anaclinal, cataclinal. 2. askew, skew, aslant, awry, wry, askant, askance,… …
117overblown — adj 1. overdone, excessive, extravagant, lavish, profuse, copious. See overdone(def. 2). 2. oversize, outsize, overlarge, overbig. 3. elaborate, overelaborate, overdetailed, overworked, overwrought; exaggerated, blown or blown up, blown up out of …
118periphrastic — adj circumlocutory, pleonastic, tautological, redundant; verbose, wordy, prolix, profuse, diffuse, long winded, longiloquent; repetitive, tedious, battological; digressive, discursive, excursive, circuitous, roundabout, ambagious, indirect,… …
119pettifogging — adj 1. trifling, niggling, frivolous, Inf. nitpicking, paltry, insubstantial, insignificant; circumlocutory, fencing, equivocating, sophistical, sophistic, casuistic, casuistical; hairsplitting, caviling, captious; finespun, over refined, subtle …
120pleonastic — adj redundant, tautological, periphrastic, circumlocutory; verbose, wordy, prolix, profuse, diffuse, long winded, longiloquent; repetitive, tedious, battological; digressive, discursive, circuitous, ambagious, roundabout, indirect, maundering,… …
