circumlocutious

Definitions of circumlocutious
  1. adjective
    roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
    “had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression”
    synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic
    indirect
    extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
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