- a verbal expression, as a word or phrase.
- the way in which something is worded; choice of words; phrasing.
- a phrase or sentence having little or no meaning.
- a use of words considered as predominating over or obscuring ideas or reality; verbiage.
- a verbal expression; phrase or word
- an exaggerated emphasis on the importance of words by the uncritical acceptance of assertions in place of explanations, the use of rhetorical style, etc
- a statement lacking real content, esp a cliché