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Definition of Lengthy

Lengthy

  1. Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.

Lengthy Quotations

Andre Maurois Quote
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
Wole Soyinka

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.
Nick Clegg

As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.
Jo Bonner
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Lengthy Translations

lengthy in French is filandreux
lengthy in German is langatmig, sehr lang

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