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.
Definition of passive for English Language Learners. â 1 used to describe someone who allows things to happen or who accepts what other people do or decide without trying to change anything. 2  grammar of a verb or voice : showing that the subject of a sentence is acted on or affected by the verb. : 3  containing a passive verb form.