Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's cloacal obsession..
Verbiage is an excess of words to express what is meant. An example of verbiage is the language Shakespeare used in his written work. an excess of words beyond those needed to express concisely what is meant; wordiness. style of expression; diction.
verbâ²less, adj. Collins Concise English Dictionary Â© HarperCollins Publishers:: verb /vÉËb/. n. (in traditional grammar) any of a large class of words in a language that serve to indicate the occurrence or performance of an action, the existence of a state or condition, etc. In English, such words as run, make, do, and the like are verbs.