circumlocutious Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic)
periphrastic; circumlocutory; ambagious.
- had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression
- A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot
