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.
When one refers to the verbiage of a piece of text, this implies that the text is wordy, impenetrable, or pretentious. The word is not traditionally synonymous with neutral words such as text, words, wording, or content, though it is sometimes used this way. Verbage, a common misspelling of verbiage, is not a dictionary-recognized word. These instances of verbiage are questionable because the word is simply synonymous with wording or text and does not bear the wordâs usual negative connotations: