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Circumlocutory

adjective
1.
Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy.  Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic.  "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."





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"Circumlocutory" Quotes from Famous Books



... vicar were frequent; and poor little Mrs. William Wylder, who knew not the reason of his visits, fell slowly, and to the good man's entire bewilderment, into a chronic jealousy. It expressed itself enigmatically; it was circumlocutory, sad, ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... his circumlocutory courtship, that she has but one tongue, she does not understand this new phrase, and desires him to talk his former language, that is, to talk as he ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson


Words linked to "Circumlocutory" :   indirect, periphrastic, circumlocutious


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