Prolix, Parsimonious

Prolix- verbose; excessively wordy

Ex: He found the cookbook’s prolix descriptions of common ingredients to be quite tedious and unnecessary. The pot roast recipe called for not just six regular sized Yukon gold potatoes, but, “six oblong, faded flaxen-yellow potatoes that appeared to have been plucked from their underground dwellings by a sturdy plainswoman with rough working hands and fingers like Genoa salami sticks. If you put your nose directly up to the smooth skin of the potato, you should be greeted by the familiar scents of wheatgrass and discarded Miller Lite aluminum pint bottles, fixtures of the Idahoan ecosystem”

Parsimonious- frugal or stingy

Ex: She had all but had it with his parsimonious vacation spending. They were a well-off couple who had been happily married for 8 years. There was absolutely no reason for them to be staying at a youth hostel surrounded by violently inebriated Aussies. She could just make out her husband’s voice over shouts of, “Oi, Bruce, you fucking legend!” as he drew her close in their tiny bunk and let her know that she was free to pick out anything she wanted on the McCafé breakfast menu tomorrow morning. “It’ll be my little treat” He said softly into her ear.