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as in gusty
marked by strong wind or more wind than usual
one particularly windy day should shake the last of the autumn leaves from the trees
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as in rhetoric
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
gave his usual windy speech about working for the common people
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as in rambling
using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea
a windy saleswoman who told us a lot more than we wanted to know about vacuum cleaners
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as in winding
marked by a long series of irregular curves
a windy little creek
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Recent Examples of windy
Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
The windy conditions are expected to continue through Friday evening.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Tuesday is expected to be sunny but windy, with a high near 29 degrees and wind at 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025
The villagers eked out crops of garlic and peppers on the terraced mountainside, and the settlement was very windy and often covered in dust.
—Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
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Temperatures were expected to remain low throughout the week, and the windy conditions were predicted to persist into Wednesday.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
The windy conditions are expected to continue through Friday evening.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Tuesday is expected to be sunny but windy, with a high near 29 degrees and wind at 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025
The villagers eked out crops of garlic and peppers on the terraced mountainside, and the settlement was very windy and often covered in dust.
—Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Windy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windy. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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