How To Use Circumlocution In A Sentence
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It was in vain that her mother had explained with many circumlocutional phrases, that the fitness in this respect should be accommodated rather to the plebeian husband than to the noble parent.
The Small House at Allington
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I think that last sentence with its circumlocutions and three parenthetical digressions is indicative of my distracted or distractible state of mind ...
Breakfast in Bed
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I was a rich heiress -- I had, I believe, a hundred thousand pounds, or more, and twice as many caprices: I was handsome and witty -- or, to speak with that kind of circumlocution which is called humility, the world, the partial world, thought me a beauty and a bel-esprit.
Tales and Novels — Volume 03
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In order to refer to the activity denoted by the F-word, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis.
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_tapis_ in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally.
Ulysses
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There was a good deal of rhetoric, circumlocution and imprecision in language.
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Instances are quoted of highly contrived antithesis, of mixed metaphor and elaborate circumlocution.
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If anything, her style can only be described as hectoring, more sniping than frontal attack, irritating and occasionally maddening in its circumlocution.
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Despite the circumlocution used, the parties all appeared to understand one another.
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He has wisely retained many Marathi words in the text, thus avoiding plodding English circumlocutions such as ‘flat millet bread’ for bhakri.
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Another unnecessary use of words and phrases is that which is termed circumlocution, a going around the bush when there is no occasion for it, -- save to fill space.
How to Speak and Write Correctly
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In order to refer to that activity, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis.
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No more circumlocution - just tell us, straight out: what are we supposed to do?
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It comes to the same thing, no doubt, but the circumlocution is significant.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Americans, in particular the US military-industrial complex, are masters of jargon and circumlocution, but they can't be blamed for everything.
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“Partial” birth and post-birth abortions are, de facto, equivalent to infanticide, to suggest otherwise or to elide that fact via circumlocution or other semantic finessing is precisely that, evasion.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge
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It is as certain as that every inventor of anything designed for the public good, and offered to the English Government, becomes _ipso facto_ a criminal, to have his heart broken on the circumlocutional wheel.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870
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Other common strategies used to save face for others include the use of circumlocution and equivocation when criticism of another's performance is unavoidable.
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He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.
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Pidgins may compensate for lack of vocabulary through circumlocution.
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Everyday language uses a number of euphemisms, including polite formulas, circumlocutions, allusions, and stock phrases.
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All along she has been, notwithstanding the weaselly circumlocution 'cleared by the Commons Authorities', effectively looting the public purse to maintain her family home.
Home is where the heart is, Home Secretary
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The problem is that Inuktitut is a language where phrases are joined together in a single word - what we call an agglutinating language - so even circumlocutions like ‘wet sticky snow’ come out as one word.
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TAPIS in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally.
Ulysses
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O'Neill, despite his apparent affability and a tendency to circumlocution, is a tough little nut.
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Large bureaucracies seem to inherently foster a culture that favours circumlocution, jargon and euphemism.
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What was being said was close to an imputation, and members cannot get around rules against unparliamentary language by circumlocution.
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The present shiftiness, circumlocution and evasion is doing the party nothing but harm.
Archive 2009-09-06
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The replies I got were pure circumlocution and double talk, nowadays referred to as spin.
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Instances are quoted of highly contrived antithesis, of mixed metaphor and elaborate circumlocution.
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This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_.
How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
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He produced yet another quite captivating display of loquacious circumlocution as he tackled questions from the press about the way he has run the team recently.
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Alas, for every valuable insight which emerges, we find a greater proportion of heady rhetoric and circumlocution.
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Both Ratzinger and Cheney just happened to be already occupying positions where saying they just 'lucked' into a job is a cynical circumlocution - this has nothing to do with any American election (well, indirectly in terms of Vice President Cheney), but everything to do with perfect bureaucratic positioning.
Is That Legal?: "Aryanization" and the Question of German "Coercion"
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I was a rich heiress – I had, I believe, a hundred thousand pounds, or more, and twice as many caprices: I was handsome and witty – or, to speak with that kind of circumlocution which is called humility, the world, the partial world, thought me a beauty and a bel-esprit.
Belinda
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His circumlocution was a suave way of stating that he had done all that could be expected of a neighbor and benevolent friend, and that the ordinary relation of broker and customer ought now be established.
Unleavened Bread
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The wife of your father's brother " is a circumlocution for " your aunt ".
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I trust, that I have not extended this privilege beyond the grounds on which I have claimed it; namely, the conveniency of the scholastic phrase to distinguish the kind from all degrees, or rather to express the kind with the abstraction of degree, as for instance multeity instead of multitude; or secondly, for the sake of correspondence in sound in interdependent or antithetical terms, as subject and object; or lastly, to avoid the wearying recurrence of circumlocutions and definitions.
Biographia Literaria
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Stripped of all apologetic circumlocution, "knickerbockers" are simply loose, easy trousers, above which is worn a becoming blouse waist, and thus attired, the belles of New
The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
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In Wales, the leadership of Plaid Cymru was always a bit bashful about independence, resorting to circumlocutions like ‘full national status’.
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Instead, circumlocutions such as "self-murder," " self-killing, "and" self-slaughter " take its place.
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Similarly in the modernday, we often use chess as a metaphor of a battle of wits, although I have yet to hear someone say that someone was "checkmated" as a circumlocution for "dead".
Symbolisms behind the Egyptian Sinat game
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This often works, but if you are writing in the active mood, the changes to the passive for the circumlocutions can be irksome.
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I answered briskly, for there was no time to be circumlocutional.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
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A certain kind of Briton prefers circumlocution and euphemism for even everyday speech: ‘I wonder if I could trouble you for a glass of water?’
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The Navajo language is complex, and through circumlocution the Code Talkers made it even more so.
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Everyday language uses a number of euphemisms, including polite formulas, circumlocutions, allusions, and stock phrases.
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That simple gesture undercuts all the caveats, qualifications and circumlocutions.
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The company has dispensed with traditional legal circumlocution with its latest court filings against its rival.
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Approximate synonyms, or else circumlocutions, are chosen to fill the gap.
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Read together with my matter-of-fact statements, Liszt's hyperbolical and circumlocutional poetic prose will not be misunderstood by the reader.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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The Shakespearean illusions, the pose of madness and threat unraveling in chilling circumlocution.
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The present shiftiness, circumlocution and evasion is doing the party nothing but harm.
Archive 2009-09-06
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He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.
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He is a master at circumlocution.
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Some words get translated using circumlocution: a scanner (or scanner in Italian), as in a flatbed scanner, is an apparatus opticus et electronicus ad legendam imaginem: an optical and electronic device for reading images.
The Vatican’s Dictionary of Recent Latinity « The Half-Baked Maker
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Her style can only be described as hectoring, irritating and occasionally maddening in its circumlocution.