How To Use Circumlocutory In A Sentence
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Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
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The tautological, circumlocutory argument of American Exceptionalism can be stated thusly: “We are on a providentially inspired mission and are guided by a ‘Higher Power’, therefore whatever our actions or policies, we cannot be in the wrong.”
American Exceptionalism
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After 20 years in the Senate, he has developed a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style.
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Other television station announcers had been less circumlocutory in declaring the result.
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Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
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“I have the distinct pleasure …,” he began in his droll, circumlocutory, Austrian-sounding speech.
Kipnis and Perel: A Literary Submission
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His theories are often circumlocutory and warped.
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But when I came to praise a faux professor of circumlocutory nonsense had razed the image immaculate – leaving a specious burst of wretched toadying.
Silence As Magnanimous Respect
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Which brings me, by a circumlocutory route to be sure, to some recent eruptions about yours truly by that petulant chihuahua Kathy Shaidle.
Archive 2008-05-01
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The challenge for the novice was to spot the bogus stuff, but Mikey deliberately made it harder by being coy and circumlocutory about genuine matters too.
It's October, 1956.
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There is the trichina spiralis, which really exists, although the German pork-butchers denounce the story as a "pig lie;" the ordinary intestinal worm, which disports itself, eel-like, in the Alimentary Canal; and the tape worm, of two varieties, one of which performs its circumlocutory antics in the human stomach, and the other in the government Bureaux at
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870
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had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression
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The rest of us, who find her circumlocutory speech patterns as abrasive as nails on a blackboard, are doomed to a future of listening to her butcher the English language.
CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2008
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Joe's conversational exchanges with the convalescent Pip are hilariously circumlocutory.
