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circumlocutory

adjective

1 circumlocutory

Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy:
— Had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression.

synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic.

Roget 573: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, ... show more


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