Copious
Copious adjective - Pouring forth in great amounts.
Usage example: a copious rush of words just poured out of the two friends who hadn't seen each other in years
Nearby Word: copiously
Poor
Poor adjective - Less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable.
Usage example: a poor crop because of the drought this year
Both words in one sentence
- The earliest comics had copious Fourth Wall Breaking, little or no backgrounds, poor story arc planning (some of which still poses a problem), and Tedd not having a permanently visible mouth.
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The Twilight Saga series by Stephenie Meyer contains a copious amount of errors: Run-on sentences, poor punctuation and comma abuse, lack of capitalization, and fragments but a few examples.
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He almost seems to be just plain ordinarily sick with the common cold or other such harmless ailments (Episode 4 informs us that his hair has turned white from debt stress and poor living conditions) though he comically overreacts to it by coughing copious amounts of blood as well.
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