The act of saying a lot but in essence saying nothing at all is also described as ‘beating around the bush’ by many.

People use too many words intentionally in order to:

1. Hiding their stance.
2. Shifting attention away from the current topic.
3. Avo...

• Equivocation is a relatively similar rhetorical technique, which involves using fancy, ambiguous language to avoid clarity, like the ones we see when we read the terms and conditions.
• Gish Gallop is like a DDOS attack, where a whole lot of rhetoric...

People often say something using more words than required, usually to be vague or misleading. This phenomenon, known as circumlocution, is often intentional and a ploy used by politicians and salesmen to be evasive or to confuse the listener(or buyer).

A lengthy, wordy response is...

1. Think and form sentences before you start to speak.
2. Try to make your words concise and simplified.
3. Learn new words and phrases to create better expressions.

If the other person is using more words than required, we need to understand how much of a misleading act it is, and how much of it is genuine or unavoidable. We also need to see if the use of too many words has some valid reason or not.

We can use Hanlon's Razor, which would mean...