CIRCUMLOCUTIOUS
\sˌɜːkəmləkjˈuːʃəs], \sˌɜːkəmləkjˈuːʃəs], \s_ˌɜː_k_ə_m_l_ə_k_j_ˈuː_ʃ_ə_s]\
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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)
By Princeton University
