circumlocutious

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adjective

roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
- 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
('ambagious' is archaic)
• Syn:
circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious
• Similar to:
indirect
• Derivationally related forms:
ambage (for: ambagious), periphrasis (for: periphrastic), circumlocution