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longwindedly

longwindedly is the alternative spelling of long-windedly.

Meaning of long-windedly

Adverb

long-windedly (comparative more long-windedly, superlative most long-windedly)

  1. In a long-winded manner; employing more lengthy phrasing than required.
    • […] an Italian piece of many parts and much intricacy—it is only a Master Braham or Madame Catalani who has got throat long enough and flexible enough for it; which stretching out as gracefully as a hen drinketh water, she cackles out the whole piece as sweetly as Orpheus, as dexterously as a...1814, James Gilchrist, Reason the True Arbiter of Language; Custom a Tyrant, London: J. Johnson, page 21
    Synonyms:
    verbosely

Forms of longwindedly

comparativemore longwindedly
superlativemost longwindedly

Questions about longwindedly

What is longwindedly the alternative spelling of?
Longwindedly is the alternative spelling of long-windedly.

Words near longwindedly in the dictionary

  1. Longwell Green
  2. Longwells
  3. longwhiles
  4. Longwick
  5. longwinded
  6. longwindedly
  7. longwindedness
  8. longwing
  9. longwings
  10. longwise
  11. Longwitton

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