Last time I wrote Java was before it had nice things so I may be slightly out of date in my assessment of its verbosity. I really wish it had decorator syntax like Kotlin does:

    class Foo(val delegate: Collection) : Collection by delegate
    {
        override fun length() = delegate.length() + 42
    }

    val foo = Foo(delegate: LinkedList())
    foo.add(1)
    foo.add(2)
    for e in foo {
        print(e)
    }
    foo.removeAll()
    foo.length() // = 42

I think a lot of the verbosity I remember was due to the sheer size of the type of interfaces you'd encounter in practice and an inability to easily compose them without implementing your own set of forwarding decorators (io stream style). That and getters/setters or rather the lack of any language-level support for dynamic properties.