verbiage

/ˈvər-bē-ij/

borrowed from French, from verbier "to trill, warble" (going back to Middle French verboier "to twitter," altered from Middle French dialect (Picard) verbloier, guerbloier, derivative of werbler "to sing expressively, trill") + -age -age

noun

  1. a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content

  2. manner of expressing oneself in words : diction

such a tangled maze of evasive verbiage as a typical party platform