ADJECTIVE
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roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.
had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression
How To Use circumlocutious In A Sentence
- I've been reading some Mexican newspapers on line and on paper lately, and I find that their language is a sort of stilted, circumlocutious style. Mexican Newspaper Language
- had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression
