Phil in SF quoted Judgment at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, …
The lawyers for the defense, the majority judgment said frostily, were often "qontesting the seemingly incontestable," and defense witnesses had given "prolix, equivocations and evasions, which only arouse distrust."
— Judgment at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass (Page 1,723)
new word: prolix
using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy
(this book has a lot of new vocabulary for me)