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verbage

verbage is the misconstruction of verbiage.

Meaning of verbiage

Noun

verbiage (countable and uncountable, plural verbiages)

  1. Overabundance of words.
    • bureaucratic verbiage
  2. The manner in which something is expressed in words; word choice.
    • Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology

Questions about verbage

What is verbage the misconstruction of?
Verbage is the misconstruction of verbiage.

Words near verbage in the dictionary

  1. verb-framing
  2. verb-object
  3. verb-objects
  4. verb. sap.
  5. Verba
  6. verbage
  7. verbal
  8. verbal adjective
  9. verbal assault
  10. verbal assaults
  11. verbal authority

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Adapted from Wiktionary: verbage (page history and authors); verbiage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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