verbiage
What verbiage really is is excess wording, not needed to convey the intended meaning. Corporate types,however, like to say "verbiage" when they mean wording. The joke is that when they refer to their own writings as "verbiage" they may unintentionally be correct.

submitted by Jim Philips

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