verbiage
UK/'vә:biidʒ/US
GREC2
Definitions
n.
Speech or writing that uses too many words; wordiness with little meaning.
冗词，废话，啰嗦的措辞
Root Breakdown
Root-derivedverb (word) + -iage (a French-flavored '-age' ending, naming a mass of something) = 'a mass of words.' Verbiage is the empty padding itself — the pile of excess words that a verbose writer produces.
Root verb still carries 7 more wordsCommon Collocations
- 1.legal verbiage法律废话
- 2.empty verbiage空洞的废话
- 3.marketing verbiage营销套话
- 4.cut the verbiage别啰嗦
Example Sentences
- 1.
The contract was buried under pages of legal verbiage.
- 2.
Cut the verbiage and tell me what actually happened.
- 3.
His emails are full of corporate verbiage that says nothing.