He is known for unnecessarily long and wordy prose, along with highly obscure allusions.

There is a certain low point toward the end when Miss Dean seems stuck in an unnecessarily long rut.

Slowly he refastened the hand bolts, taking an unnecessarily long time.

Do not make unnecessarily long calls as they are wasteful.

"It is taking an extra long time, an unnecessarily long time," he said.

It seemed to him that John Thomas had been gone an unnecessarily long time.

Don't work unnecessarily long hours just to impress him, General Powell declared.

Sometimes, however, employers take advantage of our young workers and force them to work unnecessarily long hours.

The duration of the training, as proposed by the Commission, is unnecessarily long and would have an inhibiting effect.

The Office recognizes the regulation as unnecessarily long and plans to simplify it.