circumlocutions
- plural of circumlocution.
Example Sentences
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Their circumlocutions were as entrancing as their ability to find the most precisely ironic words for difficult-to-name realities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
When a wife reads aloud from a book “written with a sizable number of circumlocutions, which were somehow addictive,” she could be describing Nopca’s stories, which have the intimate, meandering quality of neighborhood gossip.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2021
Corey’s dizzying mix of mock-intellectual circumlocutions, earnest political tirades and slapstick one-liners made him the king of comedic confusion and earned him the nickname “professor.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2017
It extended even to matters of language: Although his English was fluent, he peppered it with French circumlocutions and grammatical constructions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2016
She was weary of repetitions, weary of circumlocutions, weary of everything.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
