turgid

In a sentence

Six example sentences with turgid, each labelled with its topic.

• His turgid prose piles clause upon clause until a simple observation about rainfall takes half a page.

  Literature

• The lecture was turgid, dressing an ordinary point about causation in vocabulary borrowed from three different centuries.

  Philosophy

• Judges have begun rejecting turgid briefs, asking counsel for plain sentences that a jury could actually follow.

  Law

• The minister's turgid speech wrapped a modest tax change in so many grand phrases that reporters missed the number.

  Politics

• The annual report's turgid opening letter spent four pages on vision before admitting that sales had fallen.

  Business

• The catalog essay was turgid, describing a plain white canvas in language borrowed from theology and physics at once.

  Art

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