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circumlocutious

cir·cum·lo·cutious

uncommon

adjective

1.

roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

  • “had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression”
  • “A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.” T.S.Eliot
  • “ambagious”

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