wordy, verbose, pedantic, prolix, winded, sententious, obtuse, digressive, pithy, contentless, tiresome, banal, expository, abstruse, discursive, glib, unquotable, infelicitous, convoluted, unenlightening, quippy, uninformative, tedious, hackneyed, overfamiliar, cryptic, platitudinous, vacuous, nonsensical, tricksy, sophistic, aphoristic, prefatory, polysyllabic, overdetermined, epigrammatic, pretentious, overlong, gnomic, mealymouthed, eggheaded, unpoetic, trite, perfunctory, simplistic, repetitious, bombastic, solipsistic, delphic, amusing, unintelligible, rote, disobliging, inarticulate, unrevealing, jejune, stagey, succinct, uninteresting, waffly, stilted, boring, toneless, inelegant, silly, lawyerly, reductive, hacky, ponderous, unilluminating, snappy, lame, shakespearean sonnet, unoriginal, phrasal, non sequitur, eloquent, annoying, soporific, facetious, sophomoric, sesquipedalian, garbled, erudite, wearisome, turgid, straightforward, maladroit, unscholarly, peevish, melodramatic, snarky, terser, sarcastic, rebarbative, unmemorable, slapdash, ineloquent, humerous, essayistic, repetitive, talky, prosy, lengthy, extemporaneous, extempore, concise, terse, edifying, impassioned, informative, laconic, lengthier