circumlocution
1. a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things • Syn: periphrasis, ambage • Derivationally related forms: ambagious (for: ambage), periphrastic (for: periphrasis), circumlocutious • Hypernyms: verboseness, verbosity 2. an indirect way of expressing something • Syn: indirect expression • Derivationally related forms: circumlocutious • Hypernyms: evasion, equivocation
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