That may seem obvious, but I can't tell you how many "emergency plans" I've seen that bogged down in unnecessary verbiage, directed people to nonexistent stairwells and failed to consider non-English speakers.

As I ruminated, composed, proofread and edited out unneeded, unnecessary verbiage, I watched parts of the Mets and Yankees game, portions of the films "Mars Attacks!"

Communication: overall use of language, avoiding unnecessary verbiage.

(And because padding in this sense is "unnecessary verbiage," lose unnecessary.)

They started meeting with other poets at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in Soho to discuss reform of contemporary poetry through free verse and the tanka and haiku and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage from poems.

Berta said her mother had told her that Russian schools frowned on any unnecessary verbiage.

The farmers, peddlers, and country people proceeded joyfully to throw out large quantities of unnecessary verbiage that got in their way.

"The intention is a commendable one, though expressed with unnecessary verbiage," replied Ning.

But, to avoid unnecessary verbiage and to avail myself of the privilege of an author, I will set down, from the evidence of witnesses, the main points of the episode as though I myself had been present at his entrance.

According to McQueen, the original minutes were an attempt to embarrass certain board members, and the 'unnecessary verbiage' removed.