Prosing

Word PROSING
Character 7
Hyphenation pros ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Prosing"

What do we mean by prosing?

Tedious talk or writing.

Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure. 2. Commonplace expression or quality. 3. Roman Catholic Church. A hymn of irregular meter sung before the Gospel. Urban Dictionary

(proz) n. 1. a supposedly sophisticated way to insult someone else's attempts to write poetry, 2. on IRC #poetry channels the way one lets other people know one considers what they presented as a poem did not meet the minimum standard. Urban Dictionary

Words and phrases specifically manufactured/defined in order to mislead careless, irresponsible and deceptive journalists/writers. {An innovative, percussive and aggressive method/style of writing wherein the author intentionally creates a word/phrase and a definition for the word/phrase as a weaponized literary instrument, objectively targeting and penetrating conventional thinking, culturally imposed dogmatic norms and multi-layered veils of psychosocially nurtured concepts. Ballistic Prose is a baiting tactic aimed in the direction of reckless, quasi-intellectual journalism with the supreme achievement occuring when journalists utilize such manufactured, Ballistic Prose words/phrases as credible terms, descriptors and characterizations as part of a legitimate literary composition, thus signifying the infiltration of artificially modernized etymology and its manifestation as an extension of an elaborate ruse}. Urban Dictionary

A term used to describe literature where the writing is unnecessarily flowery. it means that the writer described the situation (or wrote the entire book, passage, etc) using words that are too extravagant for the type of text, or any text at all. basically, over-describing something. with stupid words. Urban Dictionary

Poorly-written, non-lyrical poetry -- which you should never listen to while driving, or operating heavy machinery. Urban Dictionary

Purple prose is a type of writing in which the author uses very flowery, descriptive, and unnecessary words in the middle of mundane passages. The words (or descriptions) add nothing to the story and are typically incorporated because the author is not a very good writer to begin with and felt the need to add superfluous imagery to make up for that. "Twilight" and "Fifty Shades of Grey" are prime examples of purple prose. Urban Dictionary

Asserting dominance through the medium of prose Urban Dictionary

When you need to expel pent-up emotions and you do it with an attempt at creatively written words. Urban Dictionary

Text so dense, dull, and filled with words that haven't been used for three hundred years that no one can comprehend it, let alone object to it. Urban Dictionary

Writing that is so pretentious and extravagant that it sounds like the author is full of themselves and distracts the reader from the actual story itself. Urban Dictionary

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The word "prosing" in example sentences

You want to hear about her; maybe you would find it kind of prosing; but there, the afternoon sun _is_ pretty hot, and the haymakers out there in the meadows have got a hard time of it. ❋ Various (N/A)

I divided my days between working really-hard at my Russian, going for walks or rides with Valla and Sara or East, prosing with the Count in the evenings playing cards with the family they have a form of whist called "biritsch" which has caught on in England this last few years, and we played that most evenings - and generally taking life easy. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

It was all one to me if they decided on arquebuses; after a month spent listening to them prosing about jamming ramrods, and getting oil on my trousers, I found myself sharing the view of old General Scarlett, who once told me: ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

The rest of his time he spent in talk, and since I was a new listener I had to endure a good deal of his prosing in those first weeks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"My - dear - Count!" says I, astonished, and everyone stopped talking; the Queen looked pop-eyed, and even Albert left off prosing to the noble corpse beside him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; wherever you went, to dinner or an excursion or to pay a call, or even take a stroll, you were deafened with their infernal prosing-I daren't go to the privy without making sure some seedy heeler wasn't lying in wait to get me to join a caucus. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

What a disappointment to find you prosing on seals.micdeniroQuote ❋ Unknown (2009)

Is it too much to remember that when prosing in public? ❋ Unknown (2009)

And also efforts to identify the perpetrators, but I wouldn't be prosing to go into any detail on that. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If she were to be submitted to my tuition, it would take me half a century to undo what old squaretoes and his prim wife have been prosing into her, to give her a fashionable manner, or becoming nonchalance. ❋ Unknown (2008)

All this prosing seemed to my anxious mind designed to prepare me for some unfortunate change; and when I was old enough to make such private enquiries as lay in my power, I became still more persuaded that my right honourable father nourished some thoughts of making an honest woman of Marie de Martigny, and a legitimate elder brother of Francis, after his death at least, if not during his life. ❋ Unknown (2008)

'Poor Clary, what art prosing about?' cried Sir Theophilus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

LYRA? — but my Lord Stair, 11 Meanwhile, I have written myself out of my melancholy and blue devils, merely by prosing about them; so I will now converse half an hour with Roan Robin in his stall — the rascal knows me already, and snickers whenever I cross the threshold of the stable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He had the tic – douloureux occasionally, and then he might be said to be muffled, because he did not make quite as much noise as at other times, when he would go on prosing, rat – tat – tat the same thing over and over again. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We are prosing, perhaps a culture within the right wing conservative movement of hypocrisy and contradiction. ❋ Unknown (2007)

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has angered members of his own party and the public by prosing new benefits for illegal aliens. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Their goal was to create anarchy, to create the impression there's chaos in the Gaza and that the Palestinian police are oh prosing and killing people. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If anything could have added gall to bitterness, it was the choice which Saddletree made of a subject for his prosing harangues, being the trial of Effie Deans, and the probability of her being executed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We got into such a chatty state that night, through Ada and my guardian drawing me out to tell them all about Caddy, that I went on prose, prose, prosing for a length of time. ❋ Unknown (2007)

❋ Linda (2003)

"... but is that [really] [poetry]? It seems [more like] prose." ❋ Lane (2004)

1. 'Seismic [Aqueous] Waveform S.A.W.' is an example of a [ballistic prose] characterization for a ridiculously large wave. There is no such thing as a S.A.W. 2. "Dude, NBC just referred to the most recent ocean wave surge as a 'Seismic Aqueous Waveform'. Do they have any clue that there is no such thing as a [Seismic Aqueous Waveform]? Lol!" 3. {Hambone reads and replies to one of D Dog's recent definitions on UD} "D Dog, your definitions are such a lively form of 'Ballistic Prose!" {D Dog replies} "Hambone, you just invented the term to describe this style off writing = [Ballistic Prose]." ❋ Charitable Disguise (2020)

normal writing: she lay on her bed dreaming. purple prose: she lay upon her [silken] sheets in her ornately [embellished] robes of satin, her chest ascending and descending easily with every passing second, deep inside the caverns of her [subconscious mind]. ❋ Dazzlemethis (2009)

I tried to stay focused, but after a half-hour of that never-ending prose-yak, [my brain] [switched] to [Stand By]. ❋ ΔиłĦ☼иצ ߀₡ʞ (2009)

"The novel is full of [purple prose] because the author uses a bunch of [flowery] and [superfluous] adjectives that distract the reader from the story line." ❋ ILoveExeter (2015)

"Yo, this novel is so good" "Yeah, it's [one hell of a] [t-prose]" "I feel [dominated]" ❋ Shavesh (2022)

Jen had no one to share her feelings with so she turned to her [journal] and [prose] [vomited] out her heart — and found some relief. ❋ Tommy T.F.B. (2021)

I was arguing with [some dude] on [the internets] the other day, but he had such [brilliant prose] there was no way i could win. ❋ Muirne (2013)

The [Creepypasta] "[Blood Whistle]" has so much purple prose that it makes it look like the [author] has never played a violent video game in his life. ❋ BATMN Every Day (2018)

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