circumlocution
noun
a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
circumlocutionary
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a word derived from
circumlocution.
Example Sentences
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Ted cried, when my father, with some circumlocutionary hesitancy and great delicacy, conveyed his decision to our factotum.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
You will no more listen to one of the old circumlocutionary conversers than you would travel by the waggon, or make a voyage in a collier.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
