From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishverbiagever‧bi‧age /ˈvɜːbi-ɪdʒ $ ˈvɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] formal speech or writing that has many unnecessary words in it meaningless verbiage
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verbiage• Cut out the excess verbiage.• MacDonald, had he still been Prime Minister, would have lost the issue in verbiage and drowned himself in self-pity.• After the first bout of verbiage I disappeared inside my room and slept for a day.• Nobody is seriously being invited to stand on top of the mountain of verbiage and get an overview.• Dominic has always had a flair for appropriating snippets of verbiage.• Comprehension of the modern city's altered state is rarely apparent in much of the verbiage currently expended on urban architecture.Origin verbiage (1700-1800) French Old French verbier “to talk a lot”, from verbe; → VERB 