circumlocutious

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1. circumlocutious - Adjective

2. circumlocutious - Adjective Satellite

roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

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curt elliptic telegraphic close critical brief

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had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression Source: Internet

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings. Source: Internet