[TheOtherHobbes]

Literary wordiness is conscious use of language for poetic effect. It's fine in certain kinds of fiction if you can make it work. (Harder than it looks.)

Outside of literature, wordiness is usually an attempt to appear formal, archaic, and authoritative. It tries to introduces a difference in distance and status, and often comes across as pompous.

Simple examples: "utilise" for "use" "refrain from [doing the thing]" for "not [do the thing]", "I am minded to" for "I will/might."

A lot of business writing, some tech writing, and many scientific papers are unnecessarily wordy.

"Whether adults with obesity can achieve weight loss with once-weekly semaglutide at a dose of 2.4 mg as an adjunct to lifestyle intervention has not been confirmed."

Which really just says "We gave our volunteers this dose of this drug but nothing much happened."

That's a little exaggerated, and papers without the wordiness probably wouldn't pass peer review.

But still.